Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since I cannot stop it, I should like to gather such data as I may. I should like to learn what effect explosions have on marine life and how the balance of nature is affected...
...moment left its trade relations with Japan precisely as they had been, reserved the freedom to put on the clamps should Tokyo further injure U. S. sensibilities or rights in China. On the day when the trade treaty lapsed and this Damoclean policy went into effect, Secretary of State Hull was bedded with the sniffles. President Roosevelt was mum. U. S. scrap iron, oil, many another export essential to Nippon's Armies continued to move across the Pacific. Embargo-minded Senators were given to understand that it would be a good idea to hold off on bills curbing trade...
France's counterattack was a law put in effect Jan. 1, the Code de la Famille sponsored by Finance Minister Paul Reynaud. In line with democratic morality and approved by the church, it provided: 1) State payment of cash bonuses to married couples for each child born within two years after the wedding; 2) State loans for agricultural equipment and livestock to French farmers on a ten-year basis, with progressive cancellation of part of the debt for each child born within the decade-fifth birth cancels all; 3) taxation of bachelors and childless couples to pay costs...
Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...
...Michelson and Morley raced two beams of light against each other with an interferometer (a light splitter). The beams were at right angles. Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag should perceptibly slow up one of the beams. But the two beams finished th-e race practically neck & neck. This looked like a mortal wallop for the ether theory. Einstein's Relativity theories (1905-15) seemed another deadly stroke, for they dispensed with the ether as unnecessary. In the relativistic view...