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Built on the general plan of the German V2, the Viking has one great difference. The V-2 is steered by graphite vanes set in the rocket blast, but the Viking's preset gyro instruments steer it by moving the whole rocket motor, playing the gas blast from side to side like water from a hose. After the fuel is gone, and the rocket is moving in the last of the atmosphere, small jets of nitrogen shot out of a pressure sphere keep it flying true. The proving of this new system, potentially superior to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X Marks the Minute | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...kicked in for campaign funds, poured drinks for the right people or done the countless other things that made for influence in Washington, was equipped to be a five-percenter. But if the investigation should eliminate just a few of the five-percenters, and teach Government officials to steer clear of the influence boys, it would do a service not only to taxpayers but also to businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Five-Percenters | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...more striking coming from the man who, as Senator, had done so much to steer Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal through Congress, had been rewarded with Supreme Court robes and a Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Silence Broken | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...offing in the freshmen's starting lineup. Louis McCagg is at stroke, George Gifford at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steve Hedberg at five, Clem Despard at four, Bill Bliss at three, Jack Avis at two, and Bill Engstrom in the bow. Warren Clark will steer, yell stroke, and generally direct activities from the coxswain's post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: General Optimism Shrouds '52 Crew Opener | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Died. Andrew Lawrence Somers, 54, longtime Democratic Representative from New York (since 1925) who helped steer F.D.R.'s gold-devaluation bill through the House (1934); of a liver ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Roman Catholic Somers was one of Zionism's most active champions in Congress, led the fight for a $150 million loan to Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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