Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie, oldtime aeronaut of France, best known for his interest in shooting a rocket to the moon, sued Chance Vought Corp. last year on the ground that every plane it had built was an infringement of his patents. His reason: each of the planes was controlled in flight by a single stick ("joystick") operating ailerons and elevator, which he claimed to have invented. A victory in the Chance Vought case would have meant collection of fabulous damages from U. S aviation, as every plane has joystick control. Last week a Federal judge in Brook lyn dismissed the Esnault...
While Germany is far in the lead in rocketeering experiment (her German Interplanetary Society has 1,000 members, including many leading scientists), France points with pride to Robert Esnault-Pelterie. A student of space-travel for 25 years, he recently established with his friend André Hirsch the Rep-Hirsch Fund which awards 10,000 francs annually to the author of the most original contribution to ''astronautics." Russia has her Professor Nikolas Rynin. In the U. S. the only important practicing rocketeers are Dr. Darwin O. Lyon and Professor Goddard. Professor Goddard is now working on experiments...
...truth . . . our disasters and shortcomings as well as our triumphs." Without too finicky mental analysis Biographer Pringle has painted the bouncing, bubbling, sometimes bumptious career of "Teddy'' (he loathed that nickname)? the sickly child who messed around with dead frogs; the dudish State legislator who "rose like a rocket"; the Civil Service Commissioner who warred with Postmaster General John Wanamaker on the spoils system; the New York City Police Commissioner who brought the town down about his ears by shutting off Sunday beer; the Assistant Secretary of the Navy who prearranged Dewey's Manila Bay victory; the New York...
...immediately after the first triumph of the Wrights. Reputedly the sixth man in France to fly, he built an early plane known as the "R. E. P.", is sometimes credited with constructing the first cantilever monoplane (a wing without external bracing). Of recent years he has engaged chiefly in rocket researches, visited the U. S. last winter to address the Interplanetary Society and to seek money for his experiments which, he hopes, will some day result in a flight to the moon (TIME...
...Segura pastoral letter set off a hot rocket in Madrid. Ever since the departure of King Alfonso, Madrid has been quiet?a little too quiet to suit observers who recalled the doldrums that preceded the French and Russian revolutions. Last week shouting mobs bore down on the Jesuit Industrial School, burned it to the ground, swept on to a Carmelite Convent, newly erected with funds collected in South America, and burned that too. In short order four more schools and convents were burned. Nuns and priests fled through back doors. Martial law was declared...