Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teapot Dome furore finally died; Harry Sinclair served out a total of nine months in jail (for contempt of court and of the Senate investigating committee), and Fall went to prison, later died in disgrace. Exile Blackmer stayed at his chateau in France. Even World War II caused him little inconvenience. He was technically a fugitive from justice and had no passport, but when France fell to the Nazis the Swiss welcomed him, his money and his third wife "Kaja," a buxom Norwegian opera singer...
...Veterans Administration last week added up its postwar payments to 15,200,000 World War II veterans, their heirs and dependents. The total: a skyscraping $20,975,947,214. Biggest expenditure-more than $7 billion-went for education under the G.I. bill. Pensions or compensation cost $4,502,364,093; disability and death claims, $3,694,661,437; and the "52-20" program of unemployment benefits...
...Atomic Year V, men still dreaded the unchained atom, but they had gotten used to the idea that they must live with it. The question was, how? How would the Other Bomb affect the great struggle between Communism and the West? How would it weigh in the balance of war or peace...
...cities. Some people predicted inevitable peace. In Germany's new capital city of Bonn, Professor Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission, who won a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1944, argued agreeably: "If both the United States and Russia have it, there will be no war...
Some men predicted inevitable war. Said an Istanbul taxi driver: "As long as only the Americans had The Bomb, the Russians were afraid to make war. Now they won't hesitate...