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...Manhattan's Wall Street only a few late workers heard the rising thunder of engines and looked up. There was only a moment-a quick glimpse of scattered squares of light where charwomen worked while the low clouds swirled about the towers. Then the crash...
This particular rocket was not allowed to rise as high as possible (some 120 miles) or to reach its full horizontal range (230 miles). Its only payload: a radar beacon, to make it easier to track, and an assortment of dummy instruments, for crash survival tests. But the Army has more V-25, most of them now being assembled by General Electric Co. from captured German parts. It plans to fire them one a week. They will shoot higher and farther, and will carry elaborate instruments to report by radio every detail of their performance...
Spring came to interior Alaska with a crash, a splash and $108,000. As in 28 previous years, last week's icebreak on the Tanana (rhymes with Anna gnaw) River was big news. To the lucky sourdough or trapper who guessed the day, hour and nearest minute the ice went out would go a record $108,000. And like other big news, Alaskans knew they would hear it first from Fairbanks radio station KFAR, whose special events crew was camped at Nenana (rhymes with keen Anna), 150 miles south of the Arctic circle...
...owner, Charles Dana Gibson, back to work at his trade of illustrator, dropped Walter Winchell, took on Odd Mclntyre and jacked circulation from 40,000 to 100,000 within six months. Said conservative Charles Dana Gibson: "Son, you're here for the rest of your life!" The financial crash a few months later made it a year instead of a lifetime...
...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...