Word: aerojet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electronics firms in whose executive echelons businessmen and scientists are often indistinguishable. Professors do consulting work for research firms, often earning double or triple their academic salaries. Similar business colonies and "think factories" have sprung up everywhere: Arthur D. Little in Boston, The Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Aerojet General in Sacramento...
...public-relations men at Aerojet-General Corp. in El Monte, Calif., were puzzled. A company vice president, William F. ("Red") Raborn, 59, had advised them: "You might want to have some biographical material on me available." Then he took off on a mysterious trip to Texas...
...three brothers, who have taken the company for its most rewarding rides on unfamiliar roads. President Michael Gerald ("Jerry") O'Neil, 43, a cool risk taker, directs the tire and other manufacturing operations in Akron, now devotes special attention to the company's missile-making arm, Aerojet-General, which has been nicked by the aerospace cutbacks. In Manhattan, Chairman Thomas O'Neil, 49, a onetime Holy Cross College football star, oversees the company's entertainment subsidiary, RKO General, and specializes in acquisitions. And John O'Neil, 47, an extraverted intellectual who once studied...
...condition for the purchase of another radio station in 1944, William O'Neil paid an extra $75,000 for a struggling California rocket-propulsion laboratory. That has grown into Aerojet-General, a subsidiary that turns out Polaris, Minuteman and Titan rocket motors and a cigar-shaped, 354-ft. ocea-nographical research vessel called the SPAR, which bobs in the seas in a vertical position. Aerojet also produces more than half of General's sales and almost 40% of its earnings...
...admits that early hybrids spat unburned propellants out their nozzles, but he claims that the habit has been cured by baffles that keep the propellants from escaping before they have mixed and burned. Baffles and other improvements, says Ordahl, have boosted combustion efficiency to 90% in some U.T.C. hybrids. Aerojet-General Corp. has a different kind of baffle that is said to get 95% . The Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corp. believes that good burning under variable conditions can best be had by injecting extra oxidizer near the rear of the combustion chamber or downstream from the baffles...