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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Summer G. Whittier, a Republican member of the General Court's Education Committee, last night called the provisions of H 442 "not a healthy position to take in the country. It is unwise to destroy the liberties we already have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Senate Will Vote On H. 442 Today | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...idea was that the crystal would lead the gas to the cancer, which the gas would then destroy. It didn't work. But Orrie M. Friedman and George Wolf --who have been doing these experiments for three years--may have luck with their newest chemical: phosphoric acid esters...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: University's Chemists Try Mustard Gas to Wipe Out Cancer Growths | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...however, was not anticipated . . . No military leader has made the remotest suggestion that we should launch an unprovoked attack upon any country on earth . . . No military man before us recommended complete preparation for war. Nothing would please a potential enemy better than to have us bankrupt our country and destroy our economy by maintaining complete readiness for armed conflict." As it is, added Mahon, "This year we will appropriate for national defense more than 3,000% above the sum that was expended for national defense four years after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Too Little or Too Much? | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...will absolutely demoralize the enemy. We will destroy all his lines of communications. We will blast at the centers of operation and then let our allies send the army in-other boys, not our boys, to hold the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Decision in the Air | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...both Churchill and his new friend, Franklin Roosevelt, the issue was the same -to destroy Hitler. Churchill's task, beyond preparing to meet the onslaught of the Germans, was not, as he tells it, to win Roosevelt over, but to help and hurry him in winning the U.S. public over to their common view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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