Word: nde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French colleagues. He used to be a playboy, but now he abstains from smoking, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Although born in Bar Harbor, Maine, he considers Philadelphia his home town. As a bomber pilot he executed seven missions, was shot down on the last one (over Peenemünde) and was interned in Sweden, whither he escaped. After the war he returned to show business, understudied Danny Kaye. He got interested in the United World Federalists, but gave them up as a "cocktail-time plaything" and came to Europe for action...
Exit from Peenemünde. Greatest technical triumph of Nazi Germany was the V-2 rocket, prototype of the guided missiles which may dominate future wars. The V-2 project (code name "E.W.," for Elektromechanische Werke) was pushed with all the secrecy and urgency which surrounded the U.S. "Manhattan District." The rockets were developed and tested at Peenemünde on the Baltic, and manufactured in a vast underground factory at Nordhausen, east of Kassel...
When the Russians were storming Stettin, 50 miles southeast of Peenemünde, blond, husky Dr. Werner von Braun, research director of E.W., had on his desk "five orders from the High Command telling me to stay at Peenemünde, and five orders, also from the High Command, telling me to move." He consulted his staff, decided to "go with the West," i.e., toward the British and American armies...
Lucky Rocketeers. Last week 120 V-2 men were living in former hospital buildings at Fort Bliss. According to Major Hamill, who commands them, their group is almost as complete as it was at Peenemünde. With the Germans came stacks of documents: plans, blueprints, sheets of experimental data...
What were the Russians up to? Observers ventured three guesses: 1) the Russians were testing rocket equipment left by the Germans at Peenemünde, the now Russian-occupied V-bomb launching site (110 miles from Sweden); 2) they were trying to impress the world; 3) they were underlining, perhaps coincidentally, their suggestion that Stockholm give Moscow a one billion kronor ($278,500,000) credit, more than Sweden can afford without disrupting her economy...