Word: build
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...North Atlantic army was about to become a reality (with General Dwight D. Eisenhower as its supreme commander). At home the Navy and Air Force were powerful and the Army had a strong nucleus to build around. "But measured against the danger that confronts us," Mr. Truman said, "our forces are not adequate...
...agree with Winston Churchill," said Vannevar Bush, "that our possession of the bomb has been the only deterrent to Russian aggression." Dr. Bush predicted that-with faster jet planes, proximity fuses and other developments-Russia would eventually build such a defense that the U.S. would have difficulty in delivering the bomb to any primary target. He added: "When the time comes that we can't get at primary targets, we must have some other means of stopping Russian aggression." An armed force of 3,500,000 would not be enough, he said, adding: "It can't be done...
Before Radiologist Quick can use the prize, Roosevelt will have to build a machine to handle it. Plans, already drawn by Physicist Gioacchino Failla, call for a derrick-like supporting apparatus in an underground chamber and a 3½-ton bucket of lead, mercury and steel to hold the radium and direct its energy in converging rays on deep-seated cancers. When the machine is finished some time next year, the hospital will ship the empty bucket to Belgium and have it loaded. Then the radium will be brought back to Manhattan and put to work...
...marine. There was deep sonority in Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. Says Friendly: "One of the nation's troubles is that there's been no one to listen to-no Roosevelt, no Churchill, not even a Willkie. We're trying to build something in particles of voices; but we don't want them all to come from New York, Washington and Lake Success...
...time will come, thinks the CAA, when "explosive decompression" must be faced squarely. Jet airliners will have to fly at 40,000 ft. to economize fuel. The best way to make them decompression-proof, think some CAA men, would be to build cabins with no windows at all. A television eye in the plane's nose could show the passengers the country passing below-or movies could amuse them...