Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three years. To date, the Russians are known to have test-fired as many as five ICBMs, have scored at least one hit on a target at a 3,400-mile range; the U.S. has test-fired four models of the Air Force's Convair ICBM Atlas, has scored two hits at a programed initial 500-to 600-mile range. Atlas, U.S. missilery's prime weapon (cost: about $4,000,000 apiece) is fueled with a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene, is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead of megaton dimensions at a speed of about...
...Force hopes Atlas will be test-fired to its full 5,500-mile range this year. Even though testing will not be completed until 1960-61, an Atlas pilot production line is already running at Convair, can be turned on to full quantity when called...
...Force has a "backup," or reserve ICBM, the Martin Titan, currently running twelve to 14 months behind Atlas. Titan is a two-stage, liquid-fuel missile with an Atlas-type nose cone and an Atlas-sized engine thrust that can power a hydrogen warhead more than 5,500 miles. Another advantage: Titan can be broken down into two parts for easier ground or air-cargo transportation. Titan has undergone static tests of its component parts, has not yet been tested as a complete weapons system, is not expected to reach test-flight status until fall...
Under a shroud as concealing as the wraps around an Atlas missile last week was the U.S. budget for the fiscal year 1959 (beginning next July 1). But like a big missile's cover, the shroud could scarcely conceal the gigantic bulk record peacetime $73.5 billion to $74 billion. Even a few of the budget's major components were becoming noticeable. Items...
...sheer bulk (1,266 pp.), Some Came Running begs for superlatives and earns at least one-it is the biggest literary sleeping pill (2 Ibs. 11 oz.) of the season, a title that few believed could be wrested from Atlas Shrugged...