Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter's first snow seemed to have muffled summer's uneasy fears and forebodings (see BUSINESS). When Christmas shopping began last week on the day after Thanksgiving, the U.S. public demonstrated dramatically that it was still a game gang with a pocketbook...
...Charge? Other reasons he left unmentioned, but one was written large in last summer's headlines. In answering up to Republican Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper's charges of maladministration, Lilienthal had rekindled the partisan politics which blazed up during the fight over his nomination. Should he stand for reappointment in 1950, he reasoned that neither he nor the program would benefit from another tumultuous going-over...
...conflict broke last summer when Iowa's Senator Hickenlooper accused Lilienthal of "incredible mismanagement" in handling the security program More than two months of Congressional sifting cleared Lilienthal, but a powerful Military Committee still looks over the AEC's shoulder, working to keep declassification of information as limited as possible...
...portion of AEC's resources should go to non-military use. An original estimate of a six-to-eight year head start in atomic bomb production allowed the AEC to go ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while in office were international atomic controls (Russia...
...only have to crank it once in a while," he says. "In the winter it gets cold, but in the summer it's the wildest thing on the road...