Word: meteors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Results of the meteor research are also being correlated with V-2 rocket studies. Whipple expects further work to reveal new data on the upper level of the earth's atmosphere which figures in radio communications and the world's climate...
...observatories, known locally as "Whipple's Wagon Train," set out from Cambridge in August mounted on surplus government trucks and trailers. Although meteor photographing can be successful only on nights when the moon to darkened, hundreds of photographic plates have been exposed in the last five months...
...half a million Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm to cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach had an air of permanence-17-year-old Ajax and Meteor had performed the same job on the King's 80th birthday...
...Meteor Measuring. B295 cannot fly above the effective top of the atmosphere, and rockets, so far, have not stayed up long enough to be thoroughly bombarded by free-striking cosmic rays. But meteors have been cruising through space without atmospheric protection for millions, perhaps billions, of years. If examined soon after they hit the earth, they should show the worst that cosmic rays...
...Thrill-a-Second. Broadway was less excited. He did get a job speaking lines, of a sort. They were spoken very sharply and very fast at a World's Fair ride called the Meteor Speedway. The lines began: "A-thrill-a-second-a-mile-a-minute-around-the-walls-of-an-upright-BOWL! . . . Come on, brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part...