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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which scientists could measure its size, assess its contents. Intelligence officers queried their sources. As the reports came to the capital, half a dozen of the nation's top atomic physicists were gathered there in deepest secrecy. Besides the President and Secretary of Defense Johnson, fewer than two dozen men knew...
...palaver was beginning to make some of the steelworkers a little restive. At one U.S. steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to go. You just can't keep putting the cork back in the bottle." Philip Murray admitted there was "widespread restlessness," and added flatly: "This is the last postponement...
...Two days later, by a robust 438-to-109 vote, Curran pushed through a substitute -a resolution calling on all N.M.U. members to "take every step to root [Communists] out of our union completely." Then the delegates upheld the expulsion of five of the N.M.U.'s noisiest left-wing troublemakers. Among them: ex-Vice President Joe Stack and onetime National Secretary Ferdinand Smith, whom the U.S. is trying to deport as an alien...
...made the steel girders of history's greatest surge of industrialism and the tools of a nation's factories. It boasted that it was the world's No. 1 producer of aluminum, tinplate, refractories, plumbing fixtures, lifting jacks, air brakes. It had armed a nation in two world wars...
...nearby Poverty Point and on Smithfield Street hung out his shingle as a lawyer. He knew all the laws on foreclosures and he traded in other men's recklessness. In 1870 he had founded T. Mellon & Sons and had gone into private banking. Into this enterprise went two of his shrewdest sons-Andrew William and Richard Beatty...