Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stability, efficiency of the Soviet Union's new institutions may count far more than her planes and tanks, more than her standing army of more than two million. It will be a test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the practices of Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains for the system...
...collective farms now spread unchallenged over 99.1% of the country's cultivated land. They hold 93% of all the peasants. Insofar as socialization of the land means giant State fan and collectives, agriculture is socialized for the first time in history. The wooden plows and peasant strips-the crazy, antiquated setup by which a household cultivated a piece of "near" land close to the hut and a piece of "far" land distant from the village-are finished. Startling are the simple figures of mechanization-collective farmers operate 474,500 tractors, 150,000 combines, 170,000 motor trucks. They include...
...broken up into its component colors by a prism or grating, is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, indicating that the galaxies are retreating in all directions.* For them, the apparent velocity is roughly proportional to the distance. But among the nearest galaxies, this ratio does not hold. The Milky Way appears to be approaching some, receding from others. To isolate this motion, Dr. Hubble had to allow for and discount the sun's own movement within the Milky Way-since he was perforce using the solar system as an observation station. After ten years of accumulating...
...Glenn Martin laid down another job for his designers. What was now needed, he said, was a bomber that could defend itself against fighters. Since it could no longer outspeed them, its only chance to stay in the air lay in giving it enough maneuverability and fire power to hold its own in aerial combat...
...last week, on the twelfth anniversary of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris, Pan American Airways (of which Lindbergh is technical adviser) inaugurated the first transatlantic mail service. In the hold of the Clipper were 112,574 pieces (1,603 Ibs.) of mail, mostly from collectors (rate: 30? a half ounce), and a box of four dozen California marigolds for Queen Mary. Alert at her crew stations, or lolling in the luxurious cabins were 16 Pan Am employes...