Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ATLAS GUIDED MISSILE, first U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, will be produced in new plant under construction by Convair at San Diego. To cost $40 million, plant will be ready...
...would do for those cities if it got the route, insisted that Pan Am has no equipment "immediately available" for the Boston-Miami run. Turning on Northeast, National and Eastern alleged that it is improperly controlled by Howard Hughes, chief stockholder of TWA, through his 11% interest in the Atlas Corp., owner of Northeast. (Hughes fired off a statement denying the implications of the charge without denying the facts: "I own stock of Atlas Corp. as an investor, but I have no desire to take part in the management...
STRATEGIC BOMBING. Under the mission assigned it by the Key West agreement of 1948,*the Air Force has exclusive rights to the intercontinental (5,000 miles) ballistics missile, is pushing its Atlas ICBM development program. But the Army argues that the ballistics missile is actually a sort of artillery shell, points to its own service mission of destroying enemy ground forces wherever they may be found-presumably including a Soviet garrison. On that basis the Army won authorization to work on Redstone, a 200-mile range missile, and with the Navy on Jupiter, an intermediate-range (1,500 miles) ballistics...
Mighty Missiles. To the teeming pantheon of guided missiles-which already has Falcons, Navajos, Snarks, Matadors and Side Winders-Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles last week added some powerful names: for the Air Force's two versions of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile: Atlas and Titan; for the new Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile: Thor...
...First called the Atlas, from Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., which then owned Convair. The name was changed later to IBM, then to ICBM, to avoid confusion with International Business Machines Corp...