Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Johnson, would go down in history "as a slaughterhouse for democracy or as a graveyard for aggression." He wanted to call out the National Guard and the Organized Reserves and to give the President powers to mobilize industry. Maine's Owen Brewster wanted to let MacArthur use the atom bomb at his discretion...
...plans or crop prospects to think about, Canadians felt far away from Korea. But there was calm agreement that the time had come at last to stop Red aggression. From the quiet reaches of New Brunswick came unusually heated words. Said the Saint John Times-Globe: "Probably a few [atom bombs] dropped now would quickly send the North Koreans back behind the 38th Parallel...
Part of the answer was that the U.S. armed forces were designed for another kind of war: an all-out war in which a direct attack by Moscow was to be directly answered by atom-bomb-packed B-36s. The effectiveness of that kind of force had not been disproved by first week setbacks in Korea. But already Louis Johnson's touted economy program was looking downright absurd. Last week, to meet the 1951 budget limitations dictated by Johnson, the Navy decommissioned the last of 14 large carrier air groups, reducing its total groups to nine...
...rejection would leave the five-man commission shy two men-and, Smyth argued, make it doubly difficult to find replacements. "There is no doubt in my mind of Mr. Pike's intelligence, integrity, and complete devotion to the national welfare," said Smyth. In the strange world of the atom, Pike-a retired Manhattan mining and utilities financier-had shown "a remarkable capacity to grasp the scientific and technical features," added Smyth.* His two fellow commissioners backed...
...Atomic Secrets. Braves Manager Billy Southworth was certain of it. "I'm afraid someone's going to get killed," he gloomed. Yankee Coach Bill Dickey was just as convinced: "It's making a joke of the game." Though both league presidents and the company which makes the balls denied any skulduggery, one player insisted: "The atom bomb secrets were sold to Spalding, not the Russians...