Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HELP FROM THE U.S. AND ITS ALLIES in all areas under military attack by Communist-led forces. This would include vast regions of West and South China, Burma and Indo-China. Goal: the liberation of Asiatic areas now held by Communists...
...book, Our Sun (Blakiston; $4.50), Dr. Donald H. Menzel of Harvard tells how new and refined instruments have opened the sun to astronomers' prying eyes. There is plenty of action to watch, for the sun is a vast turmoil of violent storms and convulsions...
Some of the photographs show that the sun, though completely gaseous, has mountains-vast mounds of luminous gas as much as 100 miles high. The mounds seem to have some connection with sun spots (solar hurricanes), but they often appear before the spots break through the sun's surface and they persist long after the spots have disappeared. Around the peaks and valleys of these gaseous mountains blow winds whose speed may be greater than 300,000 m.p.h...
More spectacular still are the "prominences": vast, arching flames of incandescent gas ejected with enormous speed (see cut). They rise at 400,000 m.p.h. and soar to hundreds of thousands of miles above the surface. Other prominences appear out of nowhere, high above the surface, and seem to fall like water from a hose. Some of the material in prominences and other solar disturbances may be blown as far as the earth, causing the electrical storms that knock radios haywire...
...Government itself had, in fact, been trying to get Du Pont to expand. The Atomic Energy Commission has been vainly begging Du Pont, which ran the Hanford atomic plant during the war and then got out lest it be tagged as a merchant of death again, to put its vast resources back to work on atomic energy. But as long as Tom Clark thought Du Pont was too big, there was small hope that Du Pont would accede to AEC's plea to grow bigger...