Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, accusing Democrats of promising farmers the moon, Ezra Benson said: "Agriculture is not going to pot, and this Administration is going to do everything that is sound and right to help American farmers...
...made spaceships ever reach the moon, many space enthusiasts assume that they will find suitable landing gronds on the moon's vast, level plains. This assumptions is based on the view that the lunar plains, which are made of some darker material than the rest of the moon's surface, are actually lava beds poured out from once-active volcanoes whose craters now it the moon's surface. Recent observations, however, suggest that the moon has been a cold planet for so long that volcanic activity is not a satisfactory explanation of its topography. Instead, the belief...
...principal exponent of this theory is Thomas Gold of Britain's Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cosmologist Gold recently developed his ideas for a British university audience. By measuring the size of the moon's craters, the slope of thier sides, and the distance to which debris has been dispersed around them, Gold concluded that they were scooped out by huge meteorites bombarding the moon from outer space at speeds of 112,000 m.p.h. At the point of impact, says Gold, the moon's surface rock must have been gasified at temperatures...
...night, but more often the fire-gutted shell of nearby Rosewell plantation is the scene of ghostly revelries, with the shades of colonial governors, young bloods and belles moving through the pedimented doorway amid flickering candelabras and the sounds of violins and harpsichords in the black of the moon...
...Production Code approval or not. The story from the Nelson Algren novel deals with a young Chicago gambler (Frank Sinatra) who becomes a drug addict; thus it conflicts with the code's anti-narcotics clause. U.A. may have been influenced by the fact that Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, which it released without a code seal, made a killing at the box office. ¶The box-office success of Universal's To Hell and Back spurred a rush of World War II and Korean war movies. Four have recently been completed; eleven are in the works...