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...Motors employes and 120,000 workers in Chrysler plants. Next, a similar voting date would be set for the 200,000 employes of the Ford Co. The union strategy, if its demands are not met: to strike one company at a time, let the others stay in operation, thus knock off the 'opposition one at a time...
Sirs: Why shouldn't all of us admit our respective parts in the Pearl Harbor disaster? It was common knowledge that "we can knock out the Jap Navy in two weeks," and that complacent attitude, plus that of the must-not-offenders, plus those who fought even inadequate preparedness, gave the Japs their opportunity...
...present a family might be gathered around the fireside enjoying the fruits of their toil when suddenly there is a knock at the door and heavily armed policemen appear. It may be that the father, son or friend sitting in the cottage is called out, taken away into the dark, and no one knows whether he would ever come back again or what is his fate...
Lightning Thrust. Potentially, the bomb not only raised the middle and small powers much nearer to the U.S. level; it also restored to warfare "the lightning thrust" by which a smaller power might knock out a greater. The atomic bomb put a new premium on aggression (surprise) and even on chance...
...which he bombarded with a stream of neutrons. The explosion which occurred when the uranium atom finally split was, proportionately, the greatest man-made blast in history; it released 200 million electron-volts. But because the source and volume were so small, the shock was not enough to knock a fly off the wall. As war overtook the world, the problem of releasing atomic energy in quantity, as for a bomb, still remained unsolved...