Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate speech Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall prescribed equal doses of common sense and facts. Far from wallowing in the Soviet technological wake, said he, the U.S. has made historic progress. Items: > The intermediate-range ballistic missile Thor has been put into production, and the intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas has been successfully tested at full power...
HOWARD HUGHES will sell his 10.2% interest in Atlas Corp. (market value: about $7,700,000) by May 31, 1961, until then will deposit stock with neutral trust or bank. CAB forced sale because Hughes owns 78.2% of Trans World Airlines and Atlas controls Northeast Airlines, thus giving him the opportunity to control two airlines...
This month, when the Air Force's Atlas sped 2,500 miles over the Atlantic, pictures of its virtually blunt nose seemed strange to the streamline-minded. But current Atlas and Thor noses are likely to stay blunt for good reason. Developed by General Electric, they are made mainly of heavy copper, which helpfully spreads and diffuses the heat. But the main design trick is to keep the nose from ever getting too hot. The bluntness creates a shielding shock wave out front that cuts the velocity of the air actually hitting the nose to subsonic speed, then slows...
...that they allow in a nose cone. A solid-fuel missile like the projected Air Force Minuteman ICBM (due in 1963) would be badly overloaded with a heavy copper nose. Now the Minuteman will reportedly get a sharper, ablative nose, as may later advanced versions of the liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan, thus returning advanced missilery to orthodox streamlining...
GUIDANCE SYSTEM for missiles that defies enemy jamming has been developed by American Bosch Arma Corp. for Titan ICBM, and company will adapt it for use in Atlas ICBM. Air Force calls system a "major breakthrough," is now planning to give sizable new Government contract to American Bosch...