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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these and other technical reasons, scientists heard the news about Russian science with respect and foreboding. If the U.S.S.R. is producing plutonium, it has come a long way in the four years of its sped-up atomic-bomb program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: So It Was Plutonium? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...several other U.S. secrets:1) that U.S. scientists, in trying to make a superbomb, have already made one six times as powerful as the Nagasaki "Model T"; 2) that the U.S. goal is a bomb 1,000 times as powerful; 3) that the present effort is to "find some way of detonating a bomb before the fellow that wants to drop it can detonate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: So It Was Plutonium? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Atomic Energy Commission, was far more valuable to an enemy than any rumor that might have been planted deliberately. Last week Congressional leaks (i.e., Senator Johnson) got a sharp rebuke from President Truman, who demanded that such leaks stop. But the beans the Senator spilled had already rattled their way around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: So It Was Plutonium? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...praised by such men as Paul Whiteman ("Tatum is a genius") and the late Thomas ("Fats") Waller ("That Tatum ... is just too good"). He delights in swift changes in tempo and key, becomes so involved in complex contrapuntal rhythms that his listeners are certain he will never find his way out. But he always does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Solo Man | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...fast finale oompah-oompahed along in Russian style until about 30 bars from the end. Only then, for about a dozen bars, did listeners hear the powerfully dissonant Prokofiev they had known in the Scythian Suite and the first violin concerto. After that the Sixth Symphony oompahed its way to an ending. In the U.S. it might be panned, but it would not be banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Glory to Stalin | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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