Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With scarcely more ceremony than a shuffle of papers, the Air Force's Research and Development Command this week turned over the first operational Atlas-D intercontinental ballistic missiles to the 482 officers and men of the Strategic Air Command's 576th Missile Squadron at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base...
DISPUTED RULING by CAB allows financial Wheeler-Dealer Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to control West-Coast-based, non-sked Transocean Air Lines while it already controls Northeast Airlines. In a 4-1 opinion, CAB declared Odium violated Sherman Antitrust Act, but said illegal action was "outweighed by public interest...
...ICBMs Atlas 28 13 6 9 Titans 5 4 0 1 IRBMs Jupiter 21 15 5 1 Thor...
...Force fired an Atlas ICBM 5,000 miles down the Atlantic range from Cape Canaveral. The third successful Atlas shot in four weeks, the missile achieved "most of its objectives," helped offset the string of five failures that had put the nation's primary ICBM weeks behind schedule. Now, Air Force men say they hope to make the bird operational next month...
Lunar Landscapes. Soustelle's empire is only a part of the world's largest desert; by usual geographers' reckoning, the Sahara runs from the Atlas Mountains south to the Niger and from Africa's Atlantic Coast east to the Red Sea. But even the French Community's half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest...