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...forestall homesickness. But the bomb, terrible enough by white men's standards, had not felled a single spindly palm on Bikini's scraggly head. The surrounding water was still dangerously radioactive last week-but that meant nothing to King Juda. In his plea to Commodore Ben Wyatt, the Kwajalein commander, King Juda recalled how wonderful the fishing had been at home on Bikini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Look Homeward, Angel | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...tell them," said Wyatt to U.S. newsmen, "is that they can't go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Look Homeward, Angel | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Angered by delays to his housing program, Wilson Watkins Wyatt last week frantically unwrapped his emergency powers. He rolled them into a blackjack and laid about him. The chief casualty was Chicago's Tucker Corp., an innocent bystander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Clonk | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...Wilson Wyatt's National Housing Administration now decided that this 83-acre plant would be ideal for the manufacture of prefabricated houses, which were doing badly. (Production of 3,500 a month is only one-sixth of estimates.) Tucker Corp., said NHA, would have to move out so the plant could be turned over to Lustron Corp., an offshoot of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Clonk | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Bloody Action. But NHA cried: "Houses are more important than autos!" Down clonked the Wyatt blackjack on Tucker and WAA. To WAA went a "directive" ordering it to comply with NHA wishes. (WAA appealed the order to Attorney General Tom Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Clonk | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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