Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news had been labeled "Top Secret" but it had leaked out. One leak was Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson, member of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, who unwarily blurted it out on a television program in an argument for tighter security regulations. The news: the Russian atomic bomb contained plutonium...
While Senator Johnson was before the television camera, still arguing for tighter security, he also gave to the world 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...
...time or another, he had spoken out for cuts in defense spending, greater economies in ECA operations, and a tighter rein on atomic energy appropriations. As for the farmer, Sawyer told a luncheon group in New Orleans' International House: "I don't hold with this idea of giving the farmer special treatment . . . No one has any idea how much the Brannan plan would cost. I think that's one place we could make big savings...
...might have happened then. The ralliers clutched their flasks a little tighter and waited near the Commons. But it was too cold for brawling, and so the assemblage trotted off to the Glee Club concert or to one of the 19 fraternity or college dances on the campus...
...Iron Curtain between Yugoslavia and the Soviet East zipped up tighter yesterday when Rumania announced she too had severed friendship treaties with Tito's country. The formal isolation of Yugoslavia from the East completes except for Czechoslovakia the moves of Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, who followed the lead of Russia...