Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the U.S., government and industrial laboratories are working on rockets, the most promising weapons for World War III. Most of the work is secret, but last week the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore told a few facts about a long-range rocket it is developing for the Navy. The new Martin missile will be called the Neptune: the name symbolizes the Navy's contention that rockets are seagoing weapons...
Married. Henry Luce III, 22, son of the editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; and Patricia Livingston Potter, 20, daughter of John S. Potter, a Bank of China director, who flew from Shanghai for the ceremony; at the home of Mrs. Lila Tyng, the bridegroom's mother, in Gladstone...
Died. William Boardman Porter, 81, for 35 years skipper of the late J. P. Morgan's fabulous yachts, Corsair III and Corsair IV, a job that made him one of the world's best paid sea captains; in Fort Lauderdale...
...which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George III...
...peacetime, alert soldiers are always busy trying to figure out what the next war will be like. In the June and July issues of the Marine Corps Gazette, Lieut. Colonel Keith McCutcheon tells marines about guided missiles, the weapons most military men believe will dominate World War III, if the war is staved off long enough...