Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocket, a mongrel fabricated by U.S. engineers, Army ordnance men and German scientists from odds & ends of captured German V-2s, will be launched from the White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army knows where the monster is going to crash land, it is not telling...
Rundstedt Retreat. Tilburg, 's Hertogenbosch, Breda, Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom were the bolt positions in the German line from the Maas to the Scheldt estuary. All five had fallen this week without much of a fight. Allied airmen reported columns of German transports scuttling north to the rivers...
...from Antwerp to the isthmus. They captured part of the town of Woensdrecht; for a time they held the road leading to South Beveland, and they brought the railway under artillery fire. But the Germans, still the masters of the prompt counterattack, struck swiftly with reinforcements from Bergen op Zoom...
Mobile, one of the towns worst hit by the doctor shortage (and a wartime population jump from 114,906 to 230,000), was right poky about hospital space for contagious cases until last week. Then the meningitis zoom which Mobile shares with the rest of the U.S. forced action.* With 23 cases in February, and new ones developing at the rate of eight a week, the city health department persuaded the Sisters of Charity (who run City Hospital on contract) to open up the hospital's empty wing to contagious cases...
...interceptor-fighter plane with a rocket-booster mechanism which enables it to sustain a climb at an angle of 45 to 60 degrees, zoom to an altitude of 22,000 ft. in two minutes...