Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military refused to say more. Thus, the public was left to its own wild guessing whether the "satellite vehicles" were to be "inhabited" or "uninhabited," and whether they were to serve as rocket-launching platforms or observation posts...
Results of the meteor research are also being correlated with V-2 rocket studies. Whipple expects further work to reveal new data on the upper level of the earth's atmosphere which figures in radio communications and the world's climate...
That is just what Canadian cabinet ministers and diplomats have said again & again, but seldom as effectively, after pondering Canada's (and North America's) strategic position in the age of long-range bombers, rocket-firing submarines and atomic warheads. To be prepared for "the only possible enemy-Communist Russia," says Baldwin, Canada should give "complete and entire cooperation" to Britain and the U.S. He skips lightly over Canada's ability to support the program of cooperation that he sets out in definite terms...
...theory, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation announced this week that it will grant $500,000 to Princeton University and California Institute of Technology for two jet propulsion centers. Top position in each will be a Goddard professorship named for Dr. Robert H. Goddard of Clark University, U.S. rocket pioneer. Cal-Tech's Goddard professor will be China-born Dr. Hsue-Shen Tsien, 38, now professor of aerodynamics at M.I.T...
...flossy fashion-trade magazine Kaleidoscope made its bow this fall, magazine men were amazed at the jet-propelled speed with which it had been put together (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week, Kaleidoscope set another speed record of sorts: after only three issues, it fizzled out like a spent rocket. On Thanksgiving eve dismissal notices went to the staff...