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Received Thursday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, July 30. Mr. Glenn Martixij aircraft manufacturer,, diSclosed the first indication of the secret dimensiohs of the atomic bomb today when he told the Senate war iiiVestigating subcommitte6 that the Boeing Superfortess hohib bays— about 6ft wide axid 18ft long — had to be titted with special doors to carry it, says. the HeraldTribfine's Washington correspOiident. Mr. Martin told reporters later that. it had been iotmd impossible to ftiodify the Superfortress to keep patie with a later change in the bomb, The cOrrespohdent says the disclosttres put the War Department and United States Atomic Energy Cohlmission into a tailspin.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1947, Page 5
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