Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...station would also be useful, Von Braun says, for launching atom-armed guided missiles. They would spiral downward red hot, and their descent would be timed to keep them in view of the space station. Their targets on earth would be visible too. As the missile approaches its target, its course could be corrected by radio from the station, making a square hit inevitable. Once a supply of such missiles had been stockpiled in the orbit, potential aggressors below would be forced to keep the global peace...
...radio telescope may give astronomers greater insight into the structure of the universe, particularly of our galaxy--the Milky Way--which scientists believe to have a pinwheel shape with the sun in the middle and spiral arms of stars and gasses circling out from this center...
After sufficient research with the new telescope, Bok says astronomers will be able to chart reasonably well these spiral arms and eventually fit the earth in its proper position on or near one of them...
There are three ways of showing the spiral shape of our galaxy: 1) By tracing the gaseous emissions of blue-white "super giant" stars (10,000 time as bright as the sun) 2) By tracing clouds of hydrogen gasses that tend to follow the spiral arms and 3) By tracing cosmic dust...
Agreeing with Slichter, Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, noted that some inflation always accompanied mobilization, and comforted Americans by pointing out that Western European countries have fared worse England has double and France three times our price spiral. He predicts falling prices...