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...Shock of Defeat. Never was a nation so ill-prepared for defeat. A Domei broadcast admitted that the Emperor's rescript came as a shock to a people who had been cut off from true military and political news of the outside world. Official statements and Tokyo broadcasts foreshadowed some of the Jap attitudes with which MacArthur must deal...
...eyes strained at the plexiglass windows as Tibbets turned the plane broadside to Hiroshima. It took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...
...first atomic bomb had been dropped. A few seconds after the flash, the shock wave from the blast reached the Enola Gay, several miles away, and rocked it like a giant burst of flak. From the men who had rung up the curtain on a new era in history burst nothing more original than an awed...
Plans & Prospects. Industry was ready for the cancellations. It had discarded the notion that a tapering-off in war orders would cushion the reconversion shock...
...Year After V-J Day. As N.C.B. suggested, the jolt from a sudden collapse of war work might not be as painful as most people have feared. Industry has prepared its own shock absorber. According to an industry-wide survey made by the Department of Commerce, U.S. manufacturers plan to spend some $4.5 billion for plant expansion during 1946. Expenditures by public-utility companies and the railroads may reach $1.5 billion. More than that, industry plans to pump out $2.8 billion to restock its depleted inventories of non-military goods. Civilians may spend as much as $100 billion for goods...