Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watson recommended observers to try to realize the relative small size of the moon's diameter of 2000 miles to the 866.000 mile diameter of the sun. He also explained that the reason eclipses of the moon do not take place more often is the fact that the orbit of the moon varies five degrees from that of the earth...
Last week came the offering. Unlike a bond issue, the Indianapolis stock was out of the normal orbit of insurance and trust companies. Throughout the U. S., 473 dealers (plus the 90 underwriters) lined up to pass it out in small lots. Less than two hours after the books were opened, the dealers had oversubscribed more than two times. Significant item: one-eighth of the issue was sold in Indiana. Next day, the new common sold over the counter at more than the offering price. The ice has been broken...
Turkey and Russia acted last week like two small boys working up to a fight by insulting each other's big brother. In Moscow, Izvestia let out a blast declaring that Turkey was "fully drawn into the orbit of Anglo-French influence," accusing Turkey of trying to swing a Near Eastern bloc against Germany. What really got on Izvestia's nerves was the report that the Turks are building a new railroad toward Erzurum, back of the Russo-Turkish frontier...
...still Pan Am's one-man filing cabinet. He had flung out new lines, directed deals for foreign landing rights, drawn performance specifications for new airplanes that were years ahead of current design, and kept manufacturers on a hectic hop. The line revolved in a controlled orbit around him, and him alone. The head of the Atlantic division knew all about his piece of the system, the head of the Pacific division knew everything that was going on between San Francisco and Hong Kong. But only Trippe knew what was going on everywhere and only Trippe could make...