The Press: Atomic Flash

The same day that President Truman announced the atomic bomb, McGraw-Hill copyrighted Atomic Power as a magazine title, promptly nailed down the claim with a nine-page mimeographed reprint of some five-year-old atomic talk. With this hedge on the future, McGraw-Hill (Business Week, Aviation, 23 other trade publications) sat back to let the world catch up with it.

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