Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Washington and Detroit agreed Nelson had picked no mere throne-warmer. Kanzler started off as a Detroit lawyer in 1915, moved into the Ford orbit a year later when he and Edsel Ford courted (and later married) sisters. With ack-ack rapidity, Kanzler became Ford Motor Co. production manager, then director, then vice president. From Big Bill Knudsen (who then worked for Ford), he picked up production dope never taught in a law school. But Kanzler was always a lawyer, never a down-in-the-shop production man. So in 1926 he became executive vice president of Ford-controlled...
...both types of photoluminescence are similar physical phenomena. Many luminescent materials are crystalline. Impact of light waves moves some electrons away from their normal position within the latticed clumps of molecules called phosphors. Then, as each electron moves back to its original orbit, it emits light waves. Length of afterglow depends upon the time taken by the electrons in returning...
...December they consumed 775,472 bales, more than in any previous month except March 1937, which had more working days. If prosperity in the U. S. textile business could set King Cotton on his feet, he should be there already. Unfortunately, he was regally habituated to a cosmopolitan orbit. Producing around 12,000,000 bales a year, U. S. cotton growers never sold more than 8,000,000 (1940, a record) in the U. S. As long as the export market remains closed, the U. S. must either grow less cotton, or consume more...
...whole world knew that it was to German advantage to strike, hard and quickly, for many reasons: to relieve pressure on backtracking Italy, to batter down the last resistance in the Balkans, to bring France and Spain solidly into the German orbit, to smash the centre of the British Empire-and its No. 1 fleet base-before U. S. help to Britain reaches decisive proportions. The incredibly optimistic British waited for the attack, fortified from beach to beach, and serene in the conviction that "old Hitler's" attempt at invasion would be surest proof of his desperation...
Then in 1915 Einstein produced his General Theory of Relativity, a beautiful theoretical concept but, after all, just a theory. Yet the Relativity mathematics was found to predict a shift of Mercury's orbit which was practically the same as the observed shift. This was the first observational prop for Relativity.* So Einstein may have felt a nostalgic glow last week, if anyone remembered to tell him that Mercury was transiting (passing directly between the sun and the earth...