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...rockets powered with chemical fuels (alcohol and liquid oxygen) were already formidable weapons, and their limit of range and accuracy had not been approached by their German masters. But the age of rockets would not really dawn until atomic energy had been harnessed to propel them. With this in mind, the Army Air Forces recently signed a contract with the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to develop atomic aircraft motors...
...Washington University last week, Chancellor Arthur H. Compton assigned some 40 scientists to basic nuclear studies and the many unsolved engineering problems involved in making atomic engines Said Compton: "A battleship with an atomic power unit would use the unit to propel the ship, and at the same time might produce materials from which atomic bombs could be made...
Besides Cox, six other servicemen will help propel the Crimson shell. None have seen Varsity service. Rowing number seven will be Bim Chanler, an exartillery captain in the ETO who held down the same spot in the undefeated Freshman team of 1942. Number six is Mike Scully, another Army man, with only a brief informal season behind...
Also censor-passed: an "unauthenticated" description of the rocket bomb by a Reuters correspondent in Normandy. The bomb was pictured as a monstrous thing: up to 90 tons in overall weight, with an explosive head of ten to 15 tons. Its rockets would propel it through the stratosphere at 40,000 feet. Its 250-mile range would bring Birmingham, Manchester, Hull into peril...
Last week carbon dioxide, liquefied, solidified and then crushed, was used in Denver to propel bullets from guns...