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"ref": "1960 April, “Letters to the Editor”, in Trains Illustrated, page 256",
"text": "Hand across the sea: Sir, Heartiest congratulations on your new 50,000-plus circulation. I regard your feat as comparable to the Russian moon shot. David P. Morgan, Editor, \"Trains\", Milwaukee, U.S.A.",
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"ref": "1971, “Inner City Blues”, in What's Going On, performed by Marvin Gaye",
"text": "Rockets, moon shots / Spend it on the have-not's",
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"ref": "2007, Michael D’Antonio, A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957, the Space Race Begins, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster",
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"ref": "2003, Alan Eisenstock, “Injured Reserve”, in Ten on Sunday: The Secret Life of Men, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, page 220",
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"ref": "2016 July 28, Nicky Woolf, “Alphabet’s revenue up to $21.5bn off the back of mobile and video ads”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-03-01",
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"ref": "2016 October 10, “Editorial October 11 2016”, in Illawarra Mercury, Wollongong, N.S.W., archived from the original on 2016-12-13",
"text": "In the US, Vice President Joe Biden has been labelled as the \"Cancer Advocate in Chief\", charged in that country by President [Barack] Obama with leading the fight to find a cure after losing his son to brain cancer last year. Biden has related the fight to find a cure to the quest to land man on the moon. \"I believe that we need a moon shot in this country to cure cancer,\" he said.",
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