United States
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Stephen Puleo

Meanwhile, the cause of the disaster continued to be a source of debate carried out in the press. State chemist Walter Wedger, and U.S. inspector of explosives Daniel T. O’Connell, ...
( Category: Health & Safety March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Frederick Kempe

Ulbricht and Kurt Wismach Lock Horns OBERSPREE CABLE WORKS, EAST BERLIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1961 With less than forty-eight hours to go before launching his operation, Walter Ulbricht nevertheless kept ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1997-04-15 | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose; Douglas Brinkley

The most important result of Carter’s growing hostility toward and fear of the Soviets was the demise of SALT II. Carter was unwilling to go more than halfway in meeting ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-02-02 | Author:Matthew Brzezinski

America had been bested on the international stage, and editors across the land now salivated at the prospect of finding someone to blame for the sluggishness and complacency of the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-28 | Author:Bryan Burrough

Purvis was reading papers in his Chicago apartment around one, enjoying a rare day off, when his manservant, President, brought him the phone. It was the U.S. Marshal’s office in ...
( Category: Law Enforcement March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Rick Perlstein

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Polarization SIX OF THE ELEVEN TOP-RATED TV SHOWS IN 1969 WERE BOB HOPE SPECIALS. But Bob’s annual Christmas special from Vietnam took on a harder edge this ...
( Category: Elections March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-10-10 | Author:Tim Weiner

In retrospect, you see, I really do not believe that an intelligence organization in this government is able to deliver an honest analytical product without facing the risk of political ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Okrent, Daniel [Okrent, Daniel]

Chapter 16 “Escaped on Payment of Money” I N AN ATTEMPT to memorize poetry,” Irving Fisher wrote in 1926, “Professor Vogt of the University of Christiania found that on days ...
( Category: Legislative Branch March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Timothy Egan

Boise City, Oklahoma, April 1936 The Ehrlichs tried grinding up thistle for cattle feed, but it did not seem to work as it did for the Lowerys; their stock herd ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:Timothy Egan

A FEW YEARS into his project, Turnbull’s ranch was crowded with birds—speedy, hyperkinetic, somewhat neurotic, exceedingly horny— and Highlands Ranch was crowded with people, who were doing their share for ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:John M. Barry

The report had consequences. Park’s laboratory began the struggle to produce an antiserum and vaccine to Pfeiffer’s bacillus. Soon they were culturing liters and liters of the bacteria, transporting it ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Elizabeth Letts

Approaching the fence, Snowman is alert and Harry is balanced forward. (illustration credits 14.3) But this was a tough course. The fences were all above five feet, with big spreads, ...
( Category: Riding March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-14 | Author:R.A. Scotti

Chapter 15 The Dangerous Right Semicircle Survivors in eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts could not believe that the storm was holding anything back, but the Hurricane of 1938 saved the worst ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:John Buntin

FOR DECADES, police departments had enjoyed wide latitude in how they went about apprehending criminal suspects. In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that evidence improperly or illegally obtained ...
( Category: Criminology March 25,2014 )