Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure behind the underground was recognized this week by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine. After three months of study in the U.S., Europe and the Near East, the twelve-man committee recommended, in effect, a new policy that would scrap the 1939 British White Paper. Salient points: 1) the immediate admission of 100,000 Eufopean Jews into Palestine; 2) Jewish D.P.s are a responsibility of all the nations; 3) terrorism by Jews or Arabs must be sternly repressed...
Negative defenses such as decentralizing industry and moving cities underground are deemed unlikely during peace and too late in case of war. Nor is there a possibility of defense by keeping the bomb secret. Not only do Hans Bethe and Frederick Seitz estimate that other nations will have an atomic bomb within six years, but they believe that Russia may well be ahead of us by the end of this period...
...best: 1) Taylor's showmanship (no admission fees, a junior museum, subway ads, fresh paint), has boosted annual attendance from about 1,000,000 in 1939, to over 1,800,000; 2) the Met now has some 500,000 art objects-many of them gathering dust in underground storerooms-and only 325,811 sq. ft. of display space...
Every element and compound can be tagged in this way. Within a few years, tracers should be: 1) marking the progress of raw materials through industrial processes, 2) "banding" bacteria as if they were robins, 3) even following the motion of water deep underground...
...this and more could be forecast, but so far, the Manhattan Project is grimly guarding its piles, and burying their products underground...