Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Built on the general plan of the German V2, the Viking has one great difference. The V-2 is steered by graphite vanes set in the rocket blast, but the Viking's preset gyro instruments steer it by moving the whole rocket motor, playing the gas blast from side to side like water from a hose. After the fuel is gone, and the rocket is moving in the last of the atmosphere, small jets of nitrogen shot out of a pressure sphere keep it flying true. The proving of this new system, potentially superior to that...
...From the great valley, telescopic and radar and camera eyes were focused. Radio intercoms, film recorders, telemetering devices, electronic computers, machines that still have no names were tuned up and throbbing eagerly...
...stronger than cotton or linen and does not rot, Brownell & Co., Inc. of Moodus, Conn, started making nylon fish nets. To test their new product, Brownell made composite gill nets three miles long with alternate sections of nylon, cotton and linen. When the nets were tried in the Great Lakes, the nylon sections caught twelve times as many fish as the others...
...Look was already old hat. The great wheel of fashion was turning onward from the bustling '90s to the tubular '20s: the new line was boyish and slim. U.S. dressmakers had lifted skirts closer to the knees. Paris houses showed short, narrow evening gowns with huge, trainlike attachments and bathing suit tops. There was a host of minor gimmicks: the boyish haircut, jagged at the edges; the sleek "attenuated siren look"; huge black fur muffs; long umbrellas; Edwardian gloves; the lacquered evening "back-of-the-head bandeau"; Eton collars; the coal scuttle; the Picasso bicorne...
...Birth of the Model. In the past century, America underwent a great economic revolution. Americans made more things, and created more power to create still more things, than all past ages put together. The force chiefly charged with selling this breathless, and sometimes choking, proliferation of wealth is advertising...