Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that he can learn to live there. Compared with the planets and stars, the moon probably has a mineralogical composition much like the earth's. In this recognizable state, man could live by means of today's technology, crude as it is. He could, suggests Air Force Lieut. Colonel S. E. Singer in the Air University Quarterly Review, store the sun's abundant heat energy (daytime heat 248° F.) with inertial flywheels (which are inefficient on earth because of atmospheric friction), and control his heating during the −200° F. cold lunar nights...
...military terms, control of the moon represents the classical concept of the "high ground." Thus the lunar military potential takes on a new urgency in terms of observation and missilery. Says Air Force Brigadier General Homer Boushey: with moderate-sized telescopes, lunar observers could daily "monitor the positions of all ships at sea, all major surface construction, all above-ground missile sites" on the earth. The growing sciences of optics and radar observation already promise the tools to assure continuous observation of the turning earth and the pinpointing of objects as small as 100 ft. across...
...didn't mind the cold air outside at all. And he rode his motor scooter much too fast down Holyoke Street...
...Club expects to head towards Honolulu and the Asian cities from California, travelling by air whenever possible. Forbes said they anticipate considerable railroad travel in Japan...
...Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy said the Air Force and the Navy are scheduled to take manpower cuts under the new budget. He added that the Navy's second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier failed to get approval. Some parts of the military budget were pushed up, some down, McElroy said. Again without spelling out details, he told newsmen that "we're putting very sharp questions" against some research programs...