Bikini Bomb Hails From Page One Nuclear Test
Scientists warn the Bikini Atoll blast may fizzle with small chance of full success. Maj. Harold H Wood will drop the bomb from 30000 feet aboard B 29 Dave's Dream as 70 planes converge to carry out a complex mission in the Marshall Islands.
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Team O
Gawn
Air Force
Fong
Pacific
Pring Eugen
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Bikini
Nevada
Harold H. Wood
Bordentown
N. J
Army
Wood
Dave's
Dave Semple
Long Beach
Calif
Atomic test begins after Crossroads invasion ships assemble
On Kwajalein and Bikini heavy guard surrounds the Crossroads operation site. The bomb rests in a barbed wire compound awaiting arming aboard the B-17 drones. Dr. Harold Batchelor arrives with mice to study radiation effects as the target fleet including New York Arkansas and Nevada stands ready alongside Nagato and Sakawa.
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Kwajalein
Marshall Atoll
Harold Batchelor
Frederick, Md
Chemical Warfare Service
Eniwetok
Batchelor
Denicola Accepts Italian Presidency
Enrico Denicola agreed to become provisional president of the Italian republic and was to arrive in Rome from Naples. He will serve until general elections next year and will appoint a premier, likely Alcide De Gasperi, as one of his first tasks.
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Rome
INS
Enrico Denicola
Naples
Denicola
Alcide DeGasperi
Palestine Turmoil as British Seize Jewish Agency Leaders
Jewish Agency officials are arrested in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv amid curfews and police sweeps as British forces seize offices and enforce strict censorship. Hagana and Irgun are named as key factions driving the violence. the Anglo American Committee findings provoke sharp Zionist reaction.
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Whch
Jerusalem
Jewish Agency
Shaw
Unningham
Palestine
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
Tel Aviv
Jewish Labor Federation
News
Haifa
Mount Carmel
Bernard Joseph
Isaac Shertox
Itzhad Greenbaum
S. Eisenberg
J. L. Fishman
Rabbi Fishman
Chaim Weizmann
Cunningham
Hagana
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Stern Gang
Europe
Senate Rejects Provision in Case Labor Bill
The Senate rejected the vetoed Case labor disputes bill provision by 34 to 31. The measure would have barred supervisory employees from Wagner Act benefits, prompting political debate on labor rights and agency oversight.
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Washington
Ins
Senate
Vote on amendment as rider to 1947 Labor Bill
Lawmakers considered an amendment inserted as a rider to the 1947 Labor Department appropriation bill. The change affected provisions of a Case bill, with Senator Ball of Minnesota involved.
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Ball
R-Minn
Labor Department
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