Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cautious A.F.L. Boss William Green gave the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters a straight-talking guide to Communist doubletalk. Sample: "They are willing to promise you the moon to convert you into tools and catspaws. . . . The Communists do not want to see the anti-poll tax bill and the fair employment bill adopted. By placing themselves in the forefront of these measures, they knew they were helping to defeat them...
Chileans could expect a shower of sparks for the next six years. If Congress approved charming, explosive Gabriel Gonzalez Videla's 50,000-vote plurality (not a majority) in last week's elections, Chile would be getting its liveliest president in many a political moon...
Last week few U.S. citizens got through the week without hearing the melody of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 at least once. Seven recordings of a sugared-to-taste version called Full Moon and Empty Arms were steady jukebox nickel-pullers. The theme was played more or less steadily through two current cinemas (Hollywood's Holiday in Mexico, England's Brief Encounter). Last week, Republic's I've Always Loved You made it three (see CINEMA...
...prolong the life of its batteries, station MOON would be clocked to broadcast only one minute in each hour. After landing, it would settle down to reporting local conditions. Compressing their findings on the radio wave, sensitive instruments (already highly developed by meteorologists) would feel for moisture and atmosphere. Thermometers would measure the violent temperature changes during the moon's month-long "day." Other instruments might report the effects of cosmic rays upon the moon. Carried back to earth by the radio wave, such information would give a new view of the sun's radiation, prime mover...
Neither the Army nor Dr. Hutcheson was thinking of rocketing passengers to the moon. But Robert Lee Farnsworth, president of the U.S. Rocket Society, was practically (in imagination) an earth-moon commuter already. He could see one serious obstacle only: "I'd like to be on the first flight," said he, "but my wife gets pretty indignant with...