Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winning fight in Cheyenne had not kept both of Publisher McCraken's hands busy. Between 1927 and 1932 he had bought and made daily tabloids of the weekly Newcastle News-Letters and Rock Springs Rocket. These followed the pattern of the Eagle: breezy style, plenty of comics, big, black type and Democratic politics. To keep his papers on their toes, Publisher McCraken made each local manager a part owner...
...rocket is now in that most interesting period of discovery where the shorelines are unplotted and the future limited only by imagination. . . . As the airplane gave man freedom from the earth, the rocket offers him freedom from the air. From the standpoint of science, the rocket offers the only known possibility of sending instruments to altitudes above those reached by sounding balloons. . . . From the standpoint of commerce, we must look to the rocket if we hope to attain speeds of transport above a few hundred miles an hour. . . . From the standpoint of war, we must consider the fact that rockets...
...rocket enthusiast . . . in an unguarded moment . . . might prophesy that we will eventually travel at speeds governed only by the acceleration which the human body can stand, and that in rocketing between America and Europe we will accelerate halfway across the ocean and decelerate during the other half. Or, he might even point his rocket toward another planet and, without regard to fuel supply, landing facilities, or Professor Goddard, lose himself in interstellar space...
...Edward Windsor, British manufacturers and tailors for some time saw the blackness of ruin, but now that Lloyd's rates have sunk, look to the Coronation as the biggest boom to business since the Jubilee. Returns will probably be higher than from the other celebration and high enough to rocket England into a decade of prosperity...
...prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their own power on "magnetic refractor shoes." In the accompanying text a German professor is credited with having removed, by a magical serum, "all dishonesty, crime and conflict from the human brain...