Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy announced last week that it had fired its first long-range rocket at sea. From the carrier Midway, somewhere off Bermuda, a German V-2 roared out, veered sideways, exploded six miles away. Navy spokesmen blamed a defective steering gyro for the erratic flight. The shipboard launching, they said, was successful. Success or not, it officially opened a new era of naval warfare...
William Saroyan, who also writes, prepared to send up another Saroyanesque rocket after a long, tense quiet. Out next fortnight: a new play (not yet produced), called Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine. "The action takes place in a transparent egg shell," announced Publishers Harcourt, Brace in ventriloquial tones, "inside which are miserable and majestic ruins, representing immemorial and immediate reality...
...Zwicky announced that he and his associates hope to hurl artificial meteors beyond the earth's atmosphere, to bombard the moon, Jupiter and other planets in an effort to find out what they are made of. The scientists also hope to record the mysteries of space with rocket-borne telescopes, spectrographs and other scientific instruments...
Just when the experiments will be undertaken is a military secret. A V-2 rocket was fired toward space from White Sands, N.M. last December, but the experiment failed...
...second quarter's balance sheet. But steelmen could already figure their increased costs. Two tons of coal are needed to produce a ton of steel. Steelmen talked frankly of steel price rises of between $1 and $2 a ton. Big Steel had loaded another high-price rocket...