Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rocket Ship, space gun which gives customers the illusion of being shot beyond the stratosphere...
...news, the resignation of Justice Brandeis was an unexpected rocket that floodlit the Federal judiciary this week. All last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt had been busily setting off flowerpots in his own show of judicial fireworks...
...British Interplanetary Society is a group of 100-odd enthusiasts who think a voyage to the moon by rocket-ship could be undertaken right away, if the necessary funds (about $1,250,000) were forthcoming. U. S. rocketeers, a more conservative crowd than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
...Rocket to the Moon. Clifford Odets' intense and churning drama about "middleclass love" (TIME...
Muddle No. 5: While Pan American Airways, which operates the Bermuda run jointly with Imperial, carries four rocket-equipped life rafts on its Bermuda Clipper (total raft capacity: 40 persons), the Cavalier had none. When she began to sink, her eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their...