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...Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. ... It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. . . . What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history...
...hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first job of the ten Army nurses stationed at the Churchill base was to deliver an Indian baby who was promptly nicknamed "G.I. Joe." The soldiers had time to learn how to harpoon whales from canoes. Sixteen married Canadian girls...
Modern Times. In Dayton, business-college authorities decided to junk the tried-&-true practice sentence, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back," substitute "A quick movement of the enemy would jeopardize sixteen gun boats...
...Sixteen Essex-class, the Saratoga, Enterprise and Ranger, and eight Independence-class...
...close-cropped Joseph Pulitzer Jr. has eyes so weak that he can read only headlines. Two secretaries spend five to seven hours a day reading to him; his wife takes over in the evening. He conscientiously keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind in one eye, and able to see only silhouettes with the other...