Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese had no concrete cause for worry. The U.S., they might have known, would not negotiate with Japan on the lopsided basis that the Japanese are pleased to call equitable. An agreement was as remote as the moon. But people in the position of the Chinese needed more than logic to sustain them. For four years they had cowered in dugouts, trekked thousands of miles, hungered, frozen, fought, died. What they had fought for, they told themselves bitterly, not even a friendly power could give away. And now, while Japanese troops hammered at Changsha (see p. 28), Washington...
...aircraft, Captain Charles Emery Rosendahl, last week had hope of a new U.S. air fleet. At the Navy's LTA station at Lakehurst, N.J., he had a new 400,000-cu.-ft. blimp* called K3. It was the first new nonrigid airship Lakehurst had had in many a moon. After trial flights, K-3 will be ready for coastal patrol, the first of 48 blimps authorized by Congress, in a sudden appreciation of LTA. It was high time, thought Captain Rosendahl. In Lakehurst's dwindling complement were three aging tactical blimps (including two Army castoffs), one experimental ship...
...plausibility of the continental drift theory, which holds that all the continents were once a single big land mass, "Angaea," surrounded by water. Angaea was presumably broken up and dispersed by 1) the centrifugal force of the planet's spinning, 2) the gravitational pull of sun and moon. The breakup is supposed to have tilted the earth's axis to its present screwy angle...
They could explain why raiding Spitsbergen was more effective than raiding the moon. It was not quite so easy to explain why they had not tried a raid on the Norwegian coast, when the Norwegians were so hopefully insurgent and when their own equipment and chances were so much better than the last time they made that rough trip. In an attempt to explain, War Secretary Captain David Margesson last week wrote his first newspaper article since taking office...
Last week, the third of Leningrad's siege, Kronstadt's huge guns were silenced by Nazi artillery and dive-bombers. The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon. The Finns put new pressure on the sea fort of Hanko. German warships were reported steaming into the Baltic to smoke the Red Fleet and its stinging artillery out of the Gulf of Finland...