Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working with Martin Wagner, associate professor of regional planning, two students completed blueprints in May, 1947, for the most extensive and far-reaching solution to the traffic question that was ever been seriously proposed...
That concept included murder "by the commission of heaven," said the "guardian angel," who reluctantly gave his name as Gil-Martin. He indicated a certain anti-predestinarian divine: "If the man Blanchard is worthy, he is only changing his situation for a better one; and, if unworthy, it is better that one fall than that a thousand souls perish." Robert agreed, and did the deed with a little golden pistol his guardian gave...
George, who was "wallowing" in such sins as tennis and profanity. "Besides," said Gil-Martin, "you ought to consider what great advantages would be derived to the cause of righteousness and truth were the estate and riches of that opulent house in your possession." Robert considered, and ran his brother through the back one moonlight night...
...firing day at White Sands Proving Ground, N.Mex. A Viking rocket, built by the Glenn L. Martin Co. for the Navy, stood pencil-slim on the launching stand, its gleaming aluminum body surrounded by a gantry crane. Zero hour...
...smoke billowed out of a vent near the nose of the rocket, showing that the tanks were full. "This is a marginal firing," warned an Army major. "If it doesn't go off promptly, run for the blockhouse. If it starts to topple, fall flat." Even the Glenn Martin men were pessimistic about this new-design Viking. "She's like a woman," one remarked. "There's nothing wrong with her . . . we just don't understand...