Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...
...sensational yarn, complete with arrogant Russians, secret papers, and hints of dark doings in high places. The man who told it was a bony-faced Manhattan businessman named George Racey Jordan, 51, wartime major in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Jordan and his story were triumphantly presented to a nationwide radio audience last week by Radiorator Fulton Lewis...
...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
Fulton Lewis briskly pointed out that General Leslie Groves was then head of the Manhattan Project. Jordan added that Hopkins "gave me instructions over the long distance telephone to expedite certain freight shipments ... I was to ... say nothing about them, even to my superior officers." Three shipments came through, of 500, 1,150 and 1,200 Ibs. Said Jordan: "All I know is that Colonel Kotikov had it listed as uranium...
...spoken to Hopkins only once. The committee's investigator pointed out (and the State Department acknowledged) that export licenses had been granted for shipment of some 1,500 Ibs. of uranium compounds (not the fissionable U-235) to Russia in the spring of 1943 before the Manhattan Project "cut off all sources of uranium material." But Jordan's story was of shipments occurring in 1944. Meanwhile Broadcaster Lewis kept the pot boiling by throwing in another prospective villain. He charged that Henry Wallace was the official who had overruled General Groves's protest and insisted that atomic...