Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steam engine was hit upon by Hero of Alexandria (circa 130 B. C.), made practicable (1763-82) by James Watt, appeared on no successful locomotive until 1829 (Stephenson's "Rocket...
...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...
...Hungarian-born pacifist; for $100,000 damages. Charge: that in Writer Sinclair's indignant book. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, she was depicted as an "arch-hypocrite" in approaching Producer Fox with the Peace Ship plan which she also took to Henry Ford.* Died. Reinhold Tiling, 37, German rocket plane experimenter; of injuries suffered when a rocket he was charging with liquid explosive blew up in his laboratory, killing one assistant, wounding another; at Osnabrück, Germany. Died. Charles Hamilton Sabin, 65. board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., director of 23 corporations, treasurer...
...first emergency parachute jump in 1880 when his balloon caught fire over Poland, he was a hero. So was U.S. Captain Albert Berry when he made the first test parachute jump from an airplane in 1912. Since 1919 552 flyers have bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, killing 13 bank employes...
...Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined by cables, soaring up between the Soldier Field stadium and Lake Michigan?' This is the Sky Ride (40? a head in 5-m.p.h. "rocket" cars) whence the entire layout can be surveyed...