Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invader from space probably had a large central body of nickel-iron with a smaller body of slightly different composition revolving around it like the moon around the earth. Traveling with these two were many small meteorites that hit the earth separately far from the main crater...
...whirling swarm with its double heart of iron approached the impact point from the north-northwest at 20 to 31 miles a second, and at a vertical angle of about 30°. The meteorite "moon" was moving on its orbit about 800 ft. away from the line of flight of the meteorite earth, and considerably behind it. Each collected on its forward side a layer of highly compressed air equivalent in mass to many feet of rock. The air shell of the big meteorite hit the earth first, acting like high explosive and blasting a preliminary crater...
...high-budgeted competitors. He can also latch on to a trend more quickly. In ten days and for $91,000, he was fluid enough to put out a picture on space ships (Rocketship X M) in time to sop up the publicity being lavished on the then forthcoming Destination Moon. He beat every other studio to the Korean war with The Steel Helmet (now doing well enough to promise a $2,000,000 gross). Lippert prefers not to say what Helmet cost, while he is still selling it to exhibitors who dislike paying big rentals for quickies...
Destination Moon (Coral). Scientifiction rears its supersonic head in a duet by Connie Haines and Bob Crosby, with subsonic swooshes by the sound-effects department...
Private Lives. In Sunderland, England, 38-year-old William Moon explained to the court how he happened to apply for unemployment pay for himself and his wife Mary-even though she was working: he and his wife lived together, but hadn't spoken to each other for a year, so he hadn't heard about...