On Yoyodyne.....

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> Hitler's act of naming the V-2 <


It was not Hitler but Goebbels who created the name V2.

 > Als eine der "Wunderwaffen" der NS-Propaganda wurde neben der 
Fieseler Fi 103 (V1) die A4 im Oktober 1944 von Joseph Goebbels zur 
Vergeltungswaffe/2/, kurz „*V2*“ erklärt; die Starteinheiten von 
Wehrmacht und SS nannten sie schlicht „Das Gerät“. (...) Als am 
8. September 1944 die erste A4 nur den Vorort Chiswick und nicht etwa 
die Großstadt London traf, gestand selbst Dornberger ein, dass es sich 
bei der A4 um eine „unzureichende“ Waffe handele. Trotzdem taufte sofort 
Propagandaminister Goebbels die A4 in „V2“ um und propagierte diese als 
„Vergeltungswaffe“. <

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregat_4


On 08.05.2016 18:08, ish mailian wrote:
>   The late capitalist billionaire club that dreams of colonies in space
> or anyplace but our beautiful and fragile home do remind us of
> contrast Walter Dornberger describes of the war period and the postwar
> period, how WD & Co. were bound by treaty and secrecy and limited by
> funding and yet managed a 10 year leap ahead of the rest, though, as
> the discussion of GR here now, of funding and secrecy, of the
> corruption of dreams, of pure invention and pure science or math or
> Pavlov... the naïve and innocent rocket boys who have little contact
> with Hitler, who, as Dornberger reminds us, and this a significant
> idea to consider here and now in our current discussion too,  that
> Hitler's act of naming the V-2 was conditioned by his knowledge of it,
> a knowledge he gained not by visiting the rocket proving grounds but
> by watching them on a movie screen
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Charles Albert<cfalbert at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The most interesting story in the history of capital allocation was the
>> rapid growth and then steady shrinking of Teledyne, a conglomerate formed by
>> Henry Singleton in 1960. Teledyne spent the 60’s growing through
>> acquisitions—130 companies in total, bought for twelve times earnings or
>> less—funded in large part by the issuance of new shares of Teledyne stock
>> and debt. One of its last acquisitions in this period was Ryan Aeronautical
>> in 1969—to which we will return. During this acquisitive phase, between 1961
>> and 1971, sales and earnings grew 244x and 556x alongside large growth in
>> shares outstanding and debt[i]. Earnings were sometimes volatile, but
>> Singleton didn’t care: he focused on cash flow.
>>
>> http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/05/death-by-a-thousand-cuts/
>>
>> love,
>> cfa
>>
>>
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