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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with data from his Siberian eclipse expedition in 1936 and from Harvard's coronagraph observatory at Climax, Colo. Inside the sun, atoms are so highly ionized-having most of their electrons wrenched away from their nuclei-that they are not matter as we know it but rather invisible, sub atomic debris. These hot, degenerate gases are expanded, Menzel believes, by the force of great whirlpools within the sun. Therefore, streaming out of the sun's interior in occasional eruptions, the gases do not cool immediately. Far from the sun's surface, they retain much of the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on the Sun | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...bill will grant absolute priorities to all Government-agency contracts or private industry contracts deemed vital to the defense program. These priorities would obtain all the way down through subcontracts and sub-orders for parts, supplies and raw materials. The bill also grants the President full control over the distribution and allocation of all products and materials whose shortages affect the armament program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Big Job for a Big Man | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Upped to Galarza's post of sub-secretary to the Caudillo was Luis Carrero Blanco, who was Chief of Naval Operations throughout the Civil War. In as Chief of Staff of the Army was another of Franco's intimates, General Jose Fidel Davila. Out went the Falangist head of the national police, many lesser fry and five provincial governors, including Miguel Primo de Rivera, brother of the Falange's founder. When the Falangist paper Arriba attacked him, Galarza promptly rescinded a five-day-old order exempting it from Government censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Corridor or Living Room? | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Going up, up, up, Canadian taxes are still well below the skyscraper level of Britain's, stand at the moment about halfway between the proposed U.S. taxes for the coming year and the sub-confiscatory British levies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Up, Up, Up | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Walter P. Reuther, director of the union's G-M department, said the strike call would not affect workers among the plant's 160,000 employees who are actively engaged on the company's contracts for airplane engines, trucks, aircraft sub-assemblies, Diesel engines, machine guns, shells, and other defense work...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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