Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marriage Revealed. Margaret Hastings, 34, wartime WAC corporal who was beloved of the tabloids in 1945 when she and two G.I.s were stranded for 47 days in a remote New Guinea valley after their plane had crashed; and Robert Atkinson, 29, insurance salesman; he for the second time; on June 24; in Forestville...
...stage rocket, a small "WAC Corporal" launched from the nose of a V2, reached 250 miles in March...
...Army's record-breaker was made out of a German V2, with its warhead replaced by the small, U.S.-developed "WAC Corporal" rocket. When the combination reached a certain height (the Army did not say how high), the WAC Corporal was fired by electronic control. It zipped out of the V-2's nose added its own speed to that of the V2, and reached 5,000 m.p.h. The empty V-2 fell 20 miles from the firing place; the WAC Corporal was tracked by instruments, apparently fell about 80 miles north of White Sands. Four days later...
...scattered molecules act more like satellites of the earth, moving on orbits in the earth's gravitational field. Some are shooting up, others curving back. Some may be moving around the earth like infinitesimal moons. A few may escape from the earth entirely. For brief minutes, the WAC Corporal joined this throng of molecular wanderers...
...guided-missile range (TIME, Feb. 28). They say that the White Sands range (150 miles long) is already much too small. This week's feat proved it. If the two-stage rocket had been fired at the proper angle for maximum range, instead of nearly straight up, the WAC Corporal would probably have landed something like 500 miles from the firing point...