Word: earth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Africa's Parliament last week Opposition Leader Sir De Villiers Graaff called for a vote of no confidence in the government. "Apartheid," he cried, "has become something like Mohammed's coffin suspended between the heaven of total apartheid and the earth of the hard facts of the South African situation, with farmers, industrialists and mining interests demanding more labor...
Science took a long step toward the time when the earth's oceans can be used as fuel. Last week, joint announcements by Britain's Atomic Energy Authority and trie U.S. Atomic Energy Commission told how both nations are coming close to taming for peaceful uses the furious energy of the hydrogen bomb...
...have bored 1,438 ft. into the ice. In Antarctica they are doing the same, and measuring the great icecap by seismic waves. Other scientists are observing the advance or retreat of smaller glaciers in Temperate Zone mountains. Their reports may tell what changes of climate lie in the earth's future...
...oceans make a great machine that distributes warmth and cold to many parts of the earth. By new, ingenious methods, IGY scientists are studying ocean currents, including those far below the surface. One of them flows under the Gulf Stream in the opposite direction. Even deeper, slower currents flow away from the Poles, carrying icy water along the ocean bottoms toward the equator. This water is rich in nutrient salts, so whenever it comes to the surface, as it does off Newfoundland and Peru, the sea boils with life...
...nation's longest pipeline system, will go into manufacturing of solid rocket fuels and solid-propellant rocket engines. It is closing deal to swap $6,000,000 worth of stock for control of Grand Central Rocket Co. of Redlands, Calif., which is building third-stage rocket for Vanguard earth-satellite...