Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result was impressive. On-screen popped perhaps too many models of globes and satellites, a blinding melange of maps, diagrams and statistics that have already been hammered out by the press. But there were thrilling shots of an Atlas test failure, of the Titan ("the most sophisticated long-range missile") resting ominously on its pad. And CBS gave viewers the kind of peek inside bustling missile plants that newspapers do not provide. In matter-of-fact interviews, U.S. scientists and generals pulled no punches. Warned Air Force Missileman General Bernard Schriever: "It's safe to say the Russians have...
...from the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral last week shot the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile with fiery blast and awesome roar. It climbed majestically into a layer of low-hanging clouds, disappeared to the southeast, and a few minutes later plummeted into the ocean 600 miles away-as planned...
...worth $192 (after splits); the company's profits rose 40% to an estimated $44.8 million last year. In the deadly competition of weapons, brains and power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, General Dynamics is in the forefront of the battle. Besides the Atlas, its other products include...
Hardly was the Atlas' bright orange tail lost from view when officials rushed to telephones in a concrete blockhouse 750 ft. from the launching pad. Out went the news to the White House, where President Eisenhower replied "good" to word of Atlas' second successful launching in less than a month. Another call flashed the news across the continent to the San Diego headquarters of Convair, builder of the Atlas. And in a small office on Manhattan's Park Avenue, yet another call came to Frank Pace Jr., 45, president of General Dynamics Corp., the giant industrial complex...
Rare Marriage. The Atlas-or "The Bird" to missile workers-is the most spectacular of the new weapons produced by General Dynamics, which has rocketed out of obscurity in a single decade to become the second biggest U.S. defense contractor (after Boeing) and by far the most wide-ranging...