Word: sites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short: it is a well-known fact that the moon revolves in such a way that it always turns the same face to the earth. The other side of it will always be inaccessible to rocket fire from the earth. Thus it forms an ideal site for supplies, factories, munitions works, etc. Well placed emplacements on this side of the moon, on the other hand, could command every part of the earth as if it were a chicken turning on a spit, simply waiting for New York or Moscow to come within range.... A sketch is enclosed...
...well was only a few miles from the site of an earlier test, where a Shell crew had drilled down to a record-shattering 12,056 ft. and spent $600,000 without striking oil. But oilmen were sure they had something this time. In Ottawa, Dominion geologists admitted cautiously: the Jumping Pound strike is "extremely important." In Alberta, the Shell Co. had already grabbed up drilling and royalty rights on a reported 73,000 acres near Jumping Pound. Other firms, U.S. and Canadian, were pouncing on whatever they could...
...photograph a V-2's red-streaked, zigzagged climb into the stratosphere. The pictures suggested that the first ten or 15 miles of the rocket's course are inside a "radio cage" set up by wave transmitters spaced in a two-mile circle around the launching site. On this theory, aiming the rocket was a matter of bouncing it from side to side of its cage until it was on course. It would be practically impossible to intercept...
...away from Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks in full for the first time...
...knows yet just how good the De Steffany strike really is. His first shipment of tantalite ore (700 lbs., worth about $2,000) left Edmonton last week for the U.S. Government's Metals Reserve Co. Dominion Government geologists, who have surveyed the site, somewhere in a vast area bordering Great Slave Lake, report that "it's tantalite country up there...