Word: glider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...space ships of the future will not roar through the solar system, pushed by the blazing force of their atomic engines. Instead, they will coast in graceful curves, riding gravitational pulls as a glider rides the upward currents in the air. So thinks red-haired Professor (of astronomy) Samuel Herrick, 35, of the University of California at Los Angeles. Last week he was teaching an eight-man, two-girl class the delicate art of interplanetary gliding...
...keep the glider in the earth's orbit, so the great pull of the sun would make it spiral inward toward the orbit of Venus...
Back in the '20s, he mushed off on North Pole expeditions (he is called "Ange-kok," Miracle Worker, by the Eskimos); searched for pirates' gold on a Pacific island; sleuthed for old bones around Lake Superior; flew his own glider; raced his bouncing outboard down the Hudson; mined gold in Mexico. In his spare time, aboard his 185-ft. yacht, Mizpah, he held parties that rattled Chicago tongues...
...young flyers that Congress was exercised about.. The legislators noted that parachute pay and glider pay were kept under a $1,200-a-year ceiling, and wanted flight pay similarly regulated. Under the present system there were incongruities, e.g.: "Hap" Arnold drew $4,000 a year more salary (by flight pay) than his boss, Chief of Staff Marshall. Three flying generals, with four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until...
Jackie Coogan, onetime boy cinemactor, ex-glider trooper, set up as a secondhand dealer in planes, reported that he had already bought 35 surplus ships from the U.S. and resold them to private customers...