Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of California's Radiation Laboratory, has been called the "prize wild-idea man." Some prized wild ideas: isolation of tritium (used in thermonuclear weapons) and, with a graduate student, the discovery of helium 3 (1939); the universally used radar-operated Ground-Controlled Approach System for blind-flying aircraft (1942); a method of producing nuclear reaction without the presence of uranium or million-degree heat (1956). Born in San Francisco, the son of onetime Teacher and Mayo Clinic Physician (and now medical columnist) Walter Alvarez, he studied at the University of Chicago, switched, on the advice of a favorite...
John C. Cooper, Professor at the Institute of International Air Law at McGill University, suggests a strip of national air space within which all conventional aircraft fly. This follows the present system where nations can fly over each other's land only after negotiating agreements. Above this territorial space would be a zone up to three hundred miles high of "contiguous" air space. Haley points out that nations would have partial sovereignty over this area, since most future flights through this zone would be ground to ground rocket flights. Since transportation would have to use the landing facilities...
...leaving only $9.8 billion for the second three months. Since program stretchouts are slow to take hold, this would have meant either 1) enormous cuts to bring the budget back into line by the end of the second quarter-something military planners refused to accept, or 2) forcing the aircraft industry to borrow huge sums to pay the Government's bills...
...Force. While the Government will not specifically pay interest charges on any funds the planemakers borrow, it will revise contracts to allow borrowers a bigger profit, in effect paying them back for interest charges. As matters stood at week's end, the darkening clouds over the U.S. aircraft industry looked far less threatening...
...trouble last week. The problems of developing atomic power are so great that the manufacturers of reactors now face the same kind of industry-wide shake-out that uranium miners are going through. Many small manufacturers are cutting back their plans for breaking into the reactor business. Bell Aircraft Corp. recently laid off 29 of its 30 atomic engineers. Like several other companies, it has decided to make reactor components instead of whole reactors. Even some of the giants are beginning to take a critical second look...