Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-five British colonies in five continents, and dotting the seven seas, are still ruled directly from Whitehall. Among them are the massive tracts of Tanganyika and Nigeria, the island arcs of the Solomons and the Lesser Antilles, such pinprick naval bases as Malta and Ascension (35 sq. mi.), which was administered for 107 years as one of Her Majesty's warships.* Britain's colonies were picked up, along with the commonwealth, in what the British like to call "a fit of absence of mind." Most of them were the concomitants of sea power and the search...
...Woomera rocket range, of the new uranium workings in the north, of the British atomic shots off the Montebello Islands. And, remembering the defection of Igor Gouzenko in Canada in 1945, which resulted in the exposure of Dr. Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs, Britain last week hustled two MI-5 (military intelligence) men off to Australia...
MILLIONAIRE Charles Steen, whose Mi Vida mine was southeast Utah's first big uranium strike, is joining with Salt Lake City's Combined Metals Reduction Co. to build what is called the world's biggest uranium processing mill at Moab, Utah. Uranium Reduction Co., the new company, will start work on a $4,000,000 plant within the next four months, hopes to start processing ore from Steen's mines by early...
Each fact of Davison's genius was well illustrated. Eight of his own arrangements--four folk songs and four G. and S. choruses--showed a freshness and brightness that invite but defy imitation. Canto di Caccia and Tu Mi Vuoi were particularly effective, with their alternate blending and contrasting of voice parts...
...houses, its transportation. In fact, says Author Barzun, "we would settle for Hell as our next stopping place: living conditions could be no worse there, and the climate would be better for our sinuses." But give away New York, and there's still some 3,000,000 sq. mi. of God's country left...