Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second Order of Lenin and a combat commander's Order of Suvorov. By war's end, his work had carried him all the way to Berlin, where he became Stalin's private eye in the Soviet Military Administration. He rounded up German atomic and rocket scientists, watched over Stalin's disgruntled airman son Vasily (who disappeared in 1953), trailed Zhukov to Odessa after his demotion...
...Base, near Dayton. It dates, under various names, back to World War I, and has grown into a massive tangle of intricate equipment. It tests everything from pin-head-size transistors to heavy bombers, loading them with weights or twisting their wings with tension devices. Turbojet engines, ramjets and rocket motors bellow on test stands like prehistoric monsters...
...Desert Rocket Range. Holloman is a dreary post in an alkali-dusted desert, but some of the Air Force scientists' most spectacular achievements have been accomplished there. From a tall steel tower Aerobee rockets scream into the sky, carrying instruments to explore the boundaries of space. Sixty Aerobees have been fired, carrying 150-lb. payloads to 70 miles. The new Aerobee-Hi (two have been fired) carries the same load to 150 miles. The Aerobees are research rockets, not weapons, but Holloman also tests moderate-range guided missiles...
Within five years, rockets will be carrying mail and cargo across the Atlantic. Shortly thereafter, they will be carrying passengers. These predictions were made at last week's Chicago meeting of the American Rocket Society by Harry F. Guggenheim, aircraft and rocket pioneer, and a director of the National Aeronautic Association. Guggenheim believes that rockets will cost less than jet airliners and will use less fuel because they will coast most of the way through the almost airless ionosphere...
...Soviet Russia are racing to launch the first rocket missile into interplanetary space. But if the statesmen paid more attention to television, they would realize that space adventures are strictly for the birds. Even durable Captain Video has been downgraded to a supporting role in a local show called Wonderama, where he shares billing with a drawing teacher and a cooking instructor. The only planetary wanderer left on the network air is CBS's Captain Midnight, who last week, in the fashion of spacemen everywhere, was locked in combat with the inevitable mad scientist...