Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists will keep their eyes on the moon, clocking with fine exactitude the four "contacts" as its disc passes over the sun. Their observations should refine the figures about the moon's orbit, and about the solar system in general...
When Harold Stassen popped the censorship question to Joseph Stalin (see INTERNATIONAL), he was just trying to be helpful. But last week it appeared that Stassen had unintentionally struck a blow at freedom, not for it. As they passed out of the Russian orbit, U.S. and British newsmen returning from the Moscow Conference began cabling "now it can be told" dispatches. One thing several wanted to tell about was what happened after the Stalin-Stassen chat...
...With Britain unable to furnish assistance, Turkey would crack up under the cost of continued mobilization. The Russians could accomplish by mere threat of invasion all that they could hope to achieve by invasion. If Turkey and the Dardanelles went, the whole Middle East might slide into the Russian orbit...
...argument is propped with three relatively new influences which the author thinks doom the American free-enterprise system; the repudiation of the old colonial system which will make it more difficult to dispose of surplus goods; the withdrawal of increasing sections of the world from the orbit of capitalist control into that of the socialistic states; the greatly increased productivity of the United States making inevitable and increasing the intensity of the crisis when it comes. In Sternberg's view, these factors will force a major depression with the possibilities of resolving it under the present economic system more remote...
...State Department proposed an alternative plan: purchase of U.S. food by individual food-short nations. Perhaps significantly, U.S. Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson mentioned only three countries-Italy, Austria and Greece-as examples of possible beneficiaries under this plan; all three are outside the Russian orbit...