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...next year, with four associates, an $8,700 investment, and five employees, he set up the Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif. Its product: Jato units, 10-in. thick, 3-ft. long rockets to give big planes an extra push to get them off short runways or aircraft carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Whoosh! | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...time at all, the Navy and Air Force began firing orders at Aerojet and the company took off with a whoosh itself. Within 18 months, it got six Government loans to expand, still needed more cash. It got it from General Tire & Rubber Co. (which liked Aerojet so much that it now owns 81% of its stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Whoosh! | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underwater Jet | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Army's anti-tank bazooka is a rocket weapon. Two U.S. rocketeers, Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina, are cooking with propulsion for the newly founded Aerojet Engineering Corp., in Pasadena. The Luftwaffe is using highly effective rocket guns on its fighters. Unconfirmed, but believable, is the report that the Germans have at least one more rocket weapon: a gun which will outdistance the Big Bertha of World War I and hit London from the Channel coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buck Rogers Goes to War | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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