Word: rocketings
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...facet of Lindbergh's life often overlooked is his role in rocketry. In 1929, attracted by skeptical reports of the pioneering rocket research of Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark University, Lindbergh visited Goddard at his Worcester home because, he said later, "I was trying to look far into the future of flight, and this took me into space. I realized the limitations of the propeller, and this led me into the field of rockets and jet propulsion, which I decided to investigate...
...with dreams of space exploration, Lindbergh rightly thought Goddard's theories worthy of support at a time when Goddard had all but exhausted the meager research funds available to him. Lindbergh turned to Daniel Guggenheim, telling the philanthropist: "As far as I can tell, Goddard knows more about rockets than anybody else in the country," and "if we're ever going beyond airplanes and propellers, we'll probably have to go to rockets." Guggenheim, already a spirited benefactor of aeronautical progress, was convinced. During the 1930s, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation aided Goddard's work...
...that his body had been borne on an army truck and navy boat. In a neat reductio ad absurdum, it wondered in cartoons why the casket was not also carried under water by frogmen, helicoptered aloft, then parachuted back to earth, where it could have been loaded into a rocket launcher and aimed heavenward...
...giant staging area and mortar and artillery base for its buildup against the U.S. Marines facing the zone. In almost a month of continuous fighting just south of the DMZ, the Marines have been repeatedly attacked in force and increasingly hit by round-the-clock, all-too-accurate mortar, rocket and recoil-less-rifle fire originating from...
Satellite Chapels. The new Roman Catholic cathedral, already dubbed "Paddy's Wigwam," "The Rocket," "The Crown" and "The Pope Goes to the Moon," nonetheless provides both Catholics and architects with occasion for rejoicing. The winning design was selected in 1960 by a committee headed by Liverpool's archbishop, John Cardinal Heenan (now Archbishop of Westminster in London), from among 300 submitted. It turned out to have been executed by Congregationalist Frederick Gibberd, 59, the architect and city planner responsible for London's Heathrow Airport and the new town of Harlow...