Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contains a couple of errors. You say Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard (see cut) is "no astronaut." TIME'S reporter evidently has not read Goddard's classical paper on rockets, A Method of Reaching Extreme, Altitudes, published' in 1919 by the Smithsonian Institution. This is the monograph that reopened rocket experimentation, and really started the modern era of rocket research. In it Goddard not only showed how to reach "high altitudes" theoretically, but also gave considerable space to ways of reaching the moon, and gave the results of some experiments he had made to send some flash powder...
...answer to Robert Sherrod's Saipan question on the possible suicide of Japanese civilians when we reach Japan (TIME...
...persistent lateral stretching of the fighting front is a painful business for an enemy holding undermanned positions. In the east, the Russians had pulled the Germans apart at the seams by extending the active front from a 200-mile jump-off line around Vitebsk to the present long reach between the Baltic and the Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created a two-sectored southern front with...
Warsaw was in flames. The partisanforces of General Bor which nearly four weeks ago had risen at the approach of the Red armies, fought fires and Germans with equal gallantry. From housetops they dropped Molotov cocktails on Germantanks. Their women operated 100 field kitchens and first-aid posts.Unable to reach Warsaw's cemeteries, they buried their dead in parks and public squares. Their food and water were running short...
...reach higher permanent rank (in 1941 there were only 21 active major generals, six lieutenant generals, one full general) the income with allowances for dependents is around $10,000. Flying pay, parachute pay, foreign-service pay boost these salaries. War creates more temporary high ranks. But the military careerist, whose peacetime responsibilities should be large and whose wartime responsibilities may be awesome, can expect only to die poor...