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Yet the ceiling was close to zero six years ago when Douglas engineers first went to work on plans for the Skyrockets, the week of V-J day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Skyrockets and a thousand Mylar balloons crowded the air.

From Time Magazine Archive

Skyrockets whooshed into the muddy Mississippi; searchlights glared above crowds along the riverfront.

From Time Magazine Archive

Skyrockets were familiar things to Herr von Opel's audience.

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The Skyrockets being ejected, the house proceeded in a somewhat humdrum fashion to discuss the relative merits of classics and mathematics.

From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines