Word: aerojet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes inventors draw a bead on one target, score a bull's eye on another. Sacramento's Aerojet-General Corp., prime contractor for the Polaris missile's propellant, found that when the solid fuel was molded, bubbles tended to form, caused trouble in firing. To find the bubbles, the company had to haul the finished rocket motor to a giant X-ray laboratory, spend two to three weeks taking pictures. Aerojet's radiation experts went to work, found they could do the job in hours by slipping in a radioactive cobalt pill, using photon-counters...
Threading his way through a maze of PERT charts, Raborn could spot trouble in advance-at Sunnyvale, Calif., where Lockheed Aircraft Corp., prime contractors for the missile kept 9,000 men on the job, at the new plant near Sacramento where Aerojet-General Corp. was working on solid-fuel rocket engines, at the Groton, Conn, sub pens of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. From weekly progress reports he could tell where to pour on extra effort to break a prospective bottleneck. Contractors had a hard time keeping up with Raborn's knowledge of what was going...
...become a leader among U.S. industries in its nonpartisan efforts to stir more interest in politics. Its Civic and Governmental Affairs Office, set up in 1950, was one of the first of a series of political-education programs established by such firms as General Electric, American Can Co., Aerojet-General and Gulf Oil. The company not only urges its workers and executives to run for public office, but grants a leave of absence with continued fringe benefits for any employee elected to fulltime office. Ford has made plain that no worker need fear company reprisal for his political activities...
...hell aren't you fellows making more money?" By merger and acquisition, he built General Tire into the rubber industry's fifth largest company (after Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber, and Goodrich). In 1944 he made his best deal, bought a half interest in the fledgling Aerojet Engineering Corp. for $75,000, bought another 34% chunk of the company when its sales zoomed. Last year Aerojet-General, under former Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, accounted for nearly half ($364 million) of General Tire's sales...
General Electric, Aerojet-General, Pratt & Whitney and Rocketdyne are all working on plug nozzles. Tests have been promising, and rocket men predict that for many applications the plugs will eventually supersede the graceful tail-cone engine...