Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firing day at White Sands Proving Ground, N.Mex. A Viking rocket, built by the Glenn L. Martin Co. for the Navy, stood pencil-slim on the launching stand, its gleaming aluminum body surrounded by a gantry crane. Zero hour...
...white smoke billowed out of a vent near the nose of the rocket, showing that the tanks were full. "This is a marginal firing," warned an Army major. "If it doesn't go off promptly, run for the blockhouse. If it starts to topple, fall flat." Even the Glenn Martin men were pessimistic about this new-design Viking. "She's like a woman," one remarked. "There's nothing wrong with her . . . we just don't understand...
...sheet-metal worker and amateur archeologist of Cody, found an arrowhead near a creek bank. He made a note of the place, but did not return until the summer of last year, when he found an odd-looking bone sticking out of the dry dirt. He confided in Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, Princeton professor of paleontology, who was deep in some digging of his own at Polecat Bench a few miles away. The professor was delighted: old bones associated with arrowheads are glad tidings for diggers...
Without Pay. Worth insisted that he had done the whole job himself, without pay and without the knowledge of the Navy's top brass. But he had gotten some help from Planemaker Glenn Martin and "a great deal of information" from Commander Thomas D. Davies, who piloted the Navy's Truculent Turtle in its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio...
Well after Orangemen's Day and far from the ould sod, Irish passions flared in Houston, at the expense of Glenn McCarthy's Shamrock hotel. Vandals dyed the water in the Shamrock swimming pool a deep orange, costing Millionaire McCarthy $159.40 for a rush job of draining out 100,000 gallons...