Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They usually occur in areas marked by sunspots and are followed by an increase in the cosmic radiation streaming toward the earth. Only five flares have been observed thus far, and last week's released the highest concentration of cosmic rays ever recorded. While scientists rushed to launch balloons loaded with photographic film and radio-recording equipment, the explosion was producing some weird and widespread effects. Short-wave communication about the globe was severely crippled, and telephone communications between New York, London and Rome were totally disrupted for several hours. For seven panicky hours the British Admiralty lost contact...
Born in 1909, in Sidney, Ill., "Whitey" Dahl learned to fly as a U.S. Army cadet, later dropped out of the Air Corps. and by 1937 was ready to launch his flamboyant, horsepower-opera career by marching off to the Spanish civil war with a $1,500-a-month contract to fly and fight for the Republican side. On a bombing mission over the Madrid front, he was shot down, captured and sentenced to death before a Franco firing squad...
...figures that the space plane can use an existing rocket motor to push it with an acceleration that the pilot can stand. Best take-off procedure will probably be to launch it into the air from the belly of a high-flying bomber. According to ONR's plans, the pilot will retain complete control of his craft, steering it with control surfaces while still in the atmosphere. When the air thins out too much" to be used for steering, he will control the plane's altitude by firing small rockets set at an angle to the fuselage...
...veering of the hurricane track toward the populous northeast coast of the U.S. has made the nation more hurricane-conscious than ever before. Next season the Government will launch a campaign to find out what makes hurricanes form, grow, sweep on their courses and do their destruction. When a hurricane's secrets are fully known, perhaps it can be prevented, diverted or destroyed...
Guided by Weather Bureau scientists, every Government agency that can take a hand is planning to help the National Hurricane Research Project. From Trinidad to Florida, 27 stations will launch weather balloons and record the radio reports on the weather they pass through. The Air Force will send flying laboratories into each hurricane. B50 bombers will take care of altitudes from 1,000 to 25,000 ft., and a B-47 jet-bomber crew will make runs between 30,000 and 45,000 ft. All the planes will bristle with instruments to measure everything from the temperature to electrical conditions...