Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burroughs Corp. (25% defense work) built Cape Canaveral's missile guidance computer used in Atlas tests...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. retired altogether from the airframe business, prospered by putting its chips on missiles and space, and lately has branched into such solid civilian products as cement. In time, most of the major planemakers went over to missiles and space. Today, General Dynamics has its Atlas, Boeing Airplane Co. its Dyna-Soar and Minuteman, Douglas its Skybolt, and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. its Mercury capsule. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., which is the prime contractor for the Discoverer, Midas and Samos satellites, gets more than half its sales from missilery and space. So does the company that has built more...
General Electric Co. (22% of sales in aerospace) got in early with a Government contract to assemble and fire captured German V-25, now has an arm-long list of assignments ranging from Atlas guidance systems to studies of how to live on the moon...
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. is prime contractor for the $70 million communications system at Atlas missile bases...
...South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, China are shown in one color-since by U.S. policy they are all really single nations. Thus the Cold War's most crucial boundaries end as unobtrusive red lines. And by omitting any map of the old African colonial empires, the atlas fails to dramatize the most important change of the last 15 years in the world's political maps-the breaking up of the old empires into 24 new nations...