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...worth $192 (after splits); the company's profits rose 40% to an estimated $44.8 million last year. In the deadly competition of weapons, brains and power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, General Dynamics is in the forefront of the battle. Besides the Atlas, its other products include...
Hardly was the Atlas' bright orange tail lost from view when officials rushed to telephones in a concrete blockhouse 750 ft. from the launching pad. Out went the news to the White House, where President Eisenhower replied "good" to word of Atlas' second successful launching in less than a month. Another call flashed the news across the continent to the San Diego headquarters of Convair, builder of the Atlas. And in a small office on Manhattan's Park Avenue, yet another call came to Frank Pace Jr., 45, president of General Dynamics Corp., the giant industrial complex...
Rare Marriage. The Atlas-or "The Bird" to missile workers-is the most spectacular of the new weapons produced by General Dynamics, which has rocketed out of obscurity in a single decade to become the second biggest U.S. defense contractor (after Boeing) and by far the most wide-ranging...
...Pace sees it, is not to reach too far ahead, but to plan carefully what it feels can be accomplished in the next 25 years. Its scientists have already placed on Washington desks a four-phase plan that would put manned satellites into space within five years. An improved Atlas would, by mid-1959, put a reconnaissance satellite into orbit 350 miles up to transmit televised images to earth. This would be followed by a series of satellites that, by early 1960, would keep a 24-hour watch on every part of the earth's surface. By late...
...Each Atlas launching tests different components in the missile. Last week's flight was not for distance, but to make the first test of the small rocket engines on the side of the missile that 1) maintain speed while the missile cuts off its two take-off engines (after about 130 sec. in flight), leaving only the main sustaining engine; and 2) control direction and velocity of the missile...