Word: 2s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of the V-2s has usually been told by the young enthusiasts. Now it is told by a German general who put them to work for the German army. Under his direction the rocketeers' dreams of space fligts. turned into a hardheaded weapons project, then into a nightmare, as the Nazi government fell into corruption and Hitler's Reich turned to rubble under Allied attack...
Brilliant Engineering. General Dornberger's book is rather confused but highly instructive. It tells in detail how the V-2s were developed. There is no doubt about the brilliance of the rocket engineers who worked at the great Pennemünde base. They started from scratch, feeling their way in an area where virtually nothing was known. Many rockets failed, or exploded disastrously. The engineers had to develop instruments to find out why; they had to develop test stands and guiding devices and elaborate firing routines. Many of the rocket techniques still used today were worked...
...film of a V-2's flight. He was wildly enthusiastic but demanded that the one-ton warhead be increased to ten tons. When told that this was technically impossible, he cried: "But what I want is annihilation -annihilating effect!" Dornberger had to explain that the V-2s, in effect, were long range artillery. Even if they worked perfectly, they could not annihilate England...
...imperialist dummies" of Dulles, Adenauer, Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Japan's Shigeru Yoshida. They chose sides, one to each "imperialist." The lead-off men then sprinted 100 yards to their imperialists, clouted them on the heads with cudgels and ran back to start off their No. 2s. The No. 25 then attacked the imperialists, and the game went on until the dummies lay torn in shreds. The Communist propaganda game would presumably continue too-until the P.W.s lay broken and worn...
...particular attraction for sports-car buyers: the jetlike scream produced at high speed by the air scoop in front. The TR-2 will go on sale in the U.S. early in September at about $1,500 plus taxes. One enthusiastic group of U.S. agents has already ordered 100 TR-2s a week for an entire year...