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Word: karman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weapon exists at all and is effective, it can reach London, 90 miles away. In essence, it would have to be nothing more than an elaboration of rocket weapons already in use by both sides. A published fact: the U.S. has at least two experts (Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina) working on rocket propulsion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: New Frightfulness? | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...Army's anti-tank bazooka is a rocket weapon. Two U.S. rocketeers, Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina, are cooking with propulsion for the newly founded Aerojet Engineering Corp., in Pasadena. The Luftwaffe is using highly effective rocket guns on its fighters. Unconfirmed, but believable, is the report that the Germans have at least one more rocket weapon: a gun which will outdistance the Big Bertha of World War I and hit London from the Channel coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buck Rogers Goes to War | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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