Letters, Jan. 21, 1946

What's in a Chuff?

Sirs:

In TIME [Dec. 17] under Miscellany you stated that a tug "chuffed" down the harbor. Please tell me what a tug does when it chuffs.

LeROY VAN COTT Yellowstone Park, Wyo.

¶ Chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff-chuff.—ED.

Truman & Atomics

Sirs:

Page 16, para. 5, Dec. 31, 1945 issue TIME: "As the year started, Harry Truman had no idea that his Government was engaged in atomic research."

Chapter 5, para. 34, page 87, H. D. Smyth's official report on the atomic project: "President Truman, who as a United States Senator had been aware of the project...

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