Word: loon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...films of rocket experiments make up the best part of this picture. Shots of the firing of a V-2 from the deck of an aircraft carrier open "Guided Missile." The success of this test was a revolutionary development in naval warfare. Subsequent scenes show detailed launchings of smaller 'Loon' and 'Dragonfly' rockets from land platforms, along with the radio and radar equipment that controls them. Navy scientists also demonstrate the weird acrobatics of a radio-controlled torpedo plane landing with hatch drawn back, exposing the empty cockpit. When these documentary scenes predominate, as they do in the first half...
...visit to Tombstone, Arizona's hell-roaring town of the early 1880s ... I read in TIME of April 3 that I was dead. ("Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon.") It was an interesting discovery, but one to which I am not unaccustomed...
...amateurs to write at his low (now 3? a word) rates instead of sending articles to the wealthier National Geographic (TIME, May 23). Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon...