Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles apiece via passenger airline; 30% make from one to 50 trips a year by air; their total passenger miles logged to date is better than three billion. That, as one of our statisticians has been moved to compute, is a little over 6,000 round trips to the moon...
...when he was bluntly asked if he would run if nominated, the General literally left his listeners up in the air. "That is an impossible question," he said. "If I asked you what you would do if you were flying to the moon, and halfway up you met a friend who was flying to the moon, and he asked you what you were doing there-why you'd say that was all impossible. It would be useless to answer the question...
...platform of Dugald station, a flag stop 14 miles east of Winnipeg, passengers from the Canadian National's crack transcontinental No. 4 stretched their legs. A bright moon shone on stocks of wheat in nearby fields. In eastbound No. 4's cab, Engineer J. R. Gibson was impatient to get going, for he was behind schedule. But he had to wait for a westbound special. It was 10:45 p.m., near the end of a peaceful Labor...
Dezso Sulyok's Freedom Party was out of action. Sulyok had been "advised" to get out of the country until election day was over. Bald, moon-faced Sulyok complied...
...Moon and his fellow physicists are still hoping that the AEC (or Congress) will eventually tell them where they stand. Until they get the word they can stand safely only in classes in U.S. schools, before classes of U.S. citizens, teach only what the Atomic Energy Commission marks unclassified...