Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yellow canvas ball rose jerkily up a pole on Cape Canaveral, Fla. one morning last week, a warning to fishermen to stay clear. At the Air Force Missile Test Center the long-awaited Big Shoot was on. A test version of the 100-ft. Atlas, prime Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile, designed for speeds up to 16,000 m.p.h. and 5,500-mile range, lay on its launching pad, set for its first limited flight...
...south of Cape Canaveral an Air Force crash boat cut through the Atlantic rollers to wave off small craft. Just before lunch missile buffs spotted "the Bird" through binoculars-a slim, distant white finger pointed against the light blue sky. Bubbling clouds of evaporating LOX (liquid oxygen) obscured the Atlas as technicians completed fueling. But by 2:35 p.m. "T-time" (firing time) was close at hand...
...going off all over the world-the U.S. A-bomb tests in Nevada, the British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific-and Cape Canaveral was about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile? Or one of the little ones? Near Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Rockledge, the lady watchers came out on the public beaches munching picnic lunches, and casually waited for the answer...
...Titan & Atlas. So far, most of the production-and most of the profit-has gone to two giants in the field: General Tire's Aerojet subsidiary and North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division, both of which got in on the ground floor and today account for almost 75% of all the rocket-engine business. Founded in 1942 by Theodore von Karman, who now acts as a consultant, and a group of scientists at California Institute of Technology, Aerojet plodded along until 1945 when General Tire bought up 50% of its stock for a bargain $75,000, later increased...
...rockets are becoming an increasingly big percentage of the company's total business. By spending an initial $1,000,000 right after World War II on its Rocketdyne Division, pumping in another $26 million, since then for five plants and test facilities, North American won contracts for the Atlas ICBM power plant, the engines for the Thor and Jupiter intermediate missiles. From a start of five men in 1945, North American's Rocketdyne Division has expanded to 10,500 employees, and its sales of some $165 million (18% of North American's total) last year...