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...planners have an unusual degree of independence. Unlike the Organization Man-whose slogan one businessman recently described as "I came, I saw, I concurred"-the planner often has to talk back. "He has to have the moral courage to tell management things it may not want to hear," says Aerojet-General Planner Charles W. Tait, "and so he jolly well ought to have job security...
...each case the unions failed to gain the required two-thirds majority. The question is also being fought at Boeing, where management is holding out against a union shop even though employees in a non-binding poll have already voted overwhelmingly in favor of one. Only at Aerojet-General has the I.A.M. been able to get a union shop. At Douglas Aircraft it settled for an agency shop, in which workers are not forced to join the union but still must pay it the equivalent of dues...
...capsule is far from a practical factory, but Aerojet is now building a pilot plant that will circulate a mixture of ammonia and uranium oxide through a nuclear reactor. If Aerojet calculations are correct, the plant should produce hydrazine, which now costs $1.50-$2 per lb., for as little...
Splintering Fragments. At California's Aerojet-General Corp., another esoteric operation called ''fissio-chemistry" uses the enormous energy of fissioning uranium to slam molecules together. So far, the most promising product of the process is hydrazine, a derivative of which is used as highenergy, self-igniting fuel in the Air Force's Titan II rockets...
...Aerojet scientists mixed liquid ammonia (NH3) with powdered uranium oxide, sealed the mixture in a capsule and stuck the capsule in a nuclear reactor at Livermore Laboratory. When neutrons from the reactor hit uranium atoms in the capsule, they caused the atoms to fission, or split. The atomic fragments shot apart with enormous energy (200 million electron volts per fission), splintering ammonia molecules and knocking them in every direction. The fragments recombined at once. Some formed gaseous hydrogen (H2) or nitrogen (N2). But about half the ammonia that reacted formed the much-desired hydrazine (N2H4...