Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Soto's flat-topped fenders will be cursed by mechanics, loved by car polishers. Featuring "Rocket" bodies and fluid drive, the line includes five de luxe, eight custom models. Prices $898 to $1,195 (not including seven-passenger limousine...
Then "the final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. ... It soared twice as high as any they had had before; and the moment it had burst, Mrs. Miniver remembered. 'Brightness falls from the air'-that was it! The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness...
...airport he sees a "gymbal plane," sphere-shaped, rocket-propelled, shooting off on a 3 hr. 20 min. trip to San Francisco...
...otherwise conducted themselves oddly on the night before Halloween 1938, the Orson Welles broadcast based on H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains a booful, baleful memory.* They will perhaps never think of Mercer County, N. J. except as the place where a series of rocket-machines once fictionally landed, loosing battalions of huge extra-terrestrial monsters. For those interested in 1) owning a copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic...
...look! It's a bird. . . . It's a plane. . . . It's SUPERMAN!" Superman or no superman, he has to watch his step on the radio. Mothers' clubs have their eyes on him, the Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral, may mix in no international intrigues, rub out no Hitlers. So last week Superman cleaned up a local mob bent on wrecking the Silver Clipper, a streamliner train; caught them after a quick repair...