Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of this confident reaction was based on the status of the U.S.'s own missile program. Last week a second test model of the 5,000-mile ICBM, the Atlas, stood erect and gleaming on its launching pad at sunny Cape Canaveral, Fla., ready to blast off. (The U.S.'s first Atlas, launched last June, was blown up in midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have...
...safe from the sunburn of the Sahara this year: getting the oil from Hassi Messaoud through the rebel country to the Mediterranean seaboard is practically impossible. In the desert, where no man can hide from the hovering helicopter, there is no trouble from the rebel fellagha, but the wild Atlas Mountains, which bar all routes northward from the oilfield, shelter some of the toughest Moslem rebel gangs. On the final 150-mile stretch of the railroad from Oran there have been continuous attacks by rebels for a year. In one night the line was cut by explosions in 45 places...
Though a few small Midwestern plants made quick settlements, many of the larger companies, e.g., U.S. Steel's Universal Atlas Co., settled down to fight just as stubbornly as the union. A long fight may be in the making. A New York Times report speculated that cement manufacturers, looking forward to the golden days of the $50 billion federal highway program, are getting set to hike cement prices; a strike, settled in due season-with added costs-would provide just the occasion. "When the negotiations make very little headway all over," added a Government labor expert in Washington, "such...
...simple matter of economy. Though the Navaho showed promise (about 2,300 m.p.h. speed, high altitude and 5,000-mile range), it was designed to carry bulky atomic weapons, and it is still years from production. Now with more compact warheads and with better missiles such as the Atlas and Titan ICBMs, which travel at 16,000 m.p.h. coming along more rapidly than expected, the Navaho would probably be obsolete before it ever got into operational use. Instead, the Air Force decided to produce Northrop's pilotless Snark bomber, a much slower (650 m.p.h.) but more nearly operational missile...
...missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor of his hosts how the shoot has gone. Smiles among the Convair group might mean a promising static-test day for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, frowns among the North American missile monkeys might show a bad day for the Navaho intercontinental air-breather...