Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sphere & Float. The pressure-resisting part of the submarine will be a 15-ton steel sphere nearly 7 feet in diameter, with walls 3½ inches thick. By itself, packed with apparatus and Professor Piccard, it would sink like a stone forever. But immediately above the sphere will be a submerged, boat-shaped float filled with light buoyant oil, which cannot be squashed. Below it, held tight by powerful electromagnets, will be enough iron ballast to make the submarine sink. When the Professor shuts off the current from a one-ton battery, the electromagnets will drop the ballast...
...likely that even without governmental pressure management and labor would be willing to carry on absolutely essential production, reserving the main issues of the dispute to be thrashed out by collective bargaining. Government allocation would insure proper distribution of the reduced production. Should government recognize this as its legitimate sphere of influence in labor-management disputes, strikes might soon lose their threat to the whole people and again become simply an effective means of implementing collective bargaining...
...Byrnes began telling the world what the U.S. State Department wants. A U.S. foreign policy was being laid down in positive and specific terms. Specifically the U.S. offered to join in quadripartite control commissions for 25 years in Germany and Japan, moved to stop Russia's expanding European sphere, and held out economic support to those economically stricken nations who might otherwise collapse and fall into Communist control (see INTERNATIONAL...
Successful representative government, even on the national level, requires general agreement on certain broad policies and a faith on the part of the governed that, no matter who exercises power, the structure of the government and the liberties of the subject will remain intact. In the international sphere this area of agreement is simply non-existant. A common desire for peace is not enough. It is fantastic to think that the United States, Britain, Russia, or China would submit to a majority approved policy which conflicted with an important national interest. The world is not yet ready to conduct...
...roused once more all the opponents of any kind of military influence. Said Chairman McMahon: "This [military] committee would have the power to interpret its own sphere of interest and activity . . . obstruct the work of the commission" unless the commission followed the military's policies...