Word: rocketed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again went out into the blackness. After a few minutes the shadowy form of a Moroccan slipped up to the captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded...
...almost dawn before the sea abated, the 73 most seriously injured administered to, black eyes, minor hurts treated, and the confusion partially unscrambled. Summoned by radio, the Coast Guard cutter Alexander Hamilton put medical supplies aboard by means of a rocket gun and line...
...make big names for themselves. Since the Armistice, military theorists have speculated much about weapons that might be developed in the "war of the future." Now that the "war of the future" has started, speculation is hotter than ever. One device closely watched by advance scouts is the rocket-not small signal rockets, but big rockets carrying high explosives...
Foremost U. S. rocketeer is Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, who, backed by Guggenheim funds, runs a rocket-experiment station in the New Mexico desert. In his early experiments taciturn Dr. Goddard used ordinary gunpowder for fuel, has since switched to liquid fuels, such as a mixture of oxygen and gasoline, or oxygen and hydrogen-tricky to handle but highly efficient. He has sent rockets up vertically to heights of a mile and a half. His chief interest in rockets: as a possible means of carrying scientific instruments up higher than stratosphere balloons can take them. But experimenters abroad, especially...
Early this year Major James R. Randolph, U. S. Army Ordnance Reserve, predicted in Army Ordnance that rockets would eventually assume a major role as carriers of high explosives. Hardheaded Major Randolph declared that "in the present state of the art, there probably would be no great difficulty in equaling with rockets the performance of the German long-range gun that bombarded Paris from a distance of 75 miles. But instead of firing shots of moderate caliber at long intervals, a rocket plant could fire the equivalent of 24-inch shells about as fast as desired. Such a job would...