Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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England" meant the London area.* One M.P. denounced the censorship as "a complete farce"; others demanded that the casualty totals be published-on the grounds that rumor was magnifying them unduly. Thousands of Britons watched the buzz-bombs winging toward their targets. Among the watchers: Winston Churchill, his wife and daughter Mary...
Cabled a U.S. correspondent last week: "They are just as frightening today as they were the first night." Some Britons and propagandists still bravely belittled the "buzz-bombs." But the world's scientists were not taking them so lightly. None asserted that the new weapon would seriously affect the outcome of World War II, but many regarded the buzz-bombing of England as a crude preview of World...
Moon Professor. The buzz-bomb's inventor, by Stockholm report, is Hermann Oberth, 50, professor of physical astronomy at Berlin University. A stiff, old-fashioned pedagogue, Professor Oberth has long been famed in Europe as a writer on occultism and a pioneer in the study of interplanetary rocket flying. In 1923, when he published one of the first schemes for projecting a rocket into interplanetary space, he was nicknamed "the moon professor." He also predicted murderous rockets capable of being sent halfway around the earth and exterminating whole populations...
...buzz-bomb which the professor finally produced is not a rocket (rockets are propelled by gases generated by their own fuel), but a jet-propelled missile which carries 136 gallons of gasoline, has a range of about 150 miles and a speed of 200 to 300 m.p.h. The length of its flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket...
...Nation Could Feel Safe. . . ." The greatest flaw in Professor Oberth's gyro-steered product is its inaccuracy. Inventor Hammond dismisses current buzz-bombing as a form of "making faces, beating drums and throwing stink bombs." But Hammond, himself the inventor of a radio-controlled glider bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile...