Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space centers across the U.S.: » In St. Louis, at McDonnell Aircraft Corp., makers of the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, strict limits have been set against overtime work. » In Maryland the Martin Marietta Corp. has laid off 225 men who were working on the Titan II booster, the rocket that will launch Gemini. » In Houston, home of the Manned Spacecraft Center, one official declared: "I thought we were in a race. My God, we've got guys going out of their minds down here trying to get things going." » At the Marshall Space Flight Center...
...good mate. It offers a large write-off against future taxes. Due largely to development costs on its DC-8 jetliner, its 1959-60 deficits totaled $52 million. Douglas is the contractor for the nation's first airborne ballistic missile, the Skybolt, and for the Saturn moon rocket booster. In addition, Douglas and McDonnell share a $1,800,000 contract, jointly awarded them by the Federal Aviation Agency, to develop a supersonic transport...
...DOWN TOWN. The time is long gone when the Flatiron Building was an architectural astonishment, and when the Woolworth Building held sway as the tallest in the world, but even the old soil that was the birthplace of the skyscraper has sprouted new towers. The area received a massive booster shot this year with the completion of David Rockefeller's 60-story Chase Manhattan Bank Building, packed with modern art and surrounded by a plaza roughly the size of Venice's Piazza San Marco. The dancing glass wall of No. 2 Broadway brings a note of new brightness...
...structure that will eventually house the Saturn III, the most powerful space vehicle yet off U.S. drawing boards. At the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala.. Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun gave the President a 30-second static test blast from one of the Saturn booster engines. Von Braun pointed to a huge first-stage booster (prone, but pretty impressive all the same). Said he: "This is the vehicle designed to fulfill your promise to put a man on the moon in this decade." He paused for a moment, then cried...
Last year Silliman Jr. died of a heart attack at 36, and five months ago, his younger brother, Amon Carter Evans, 29, came in as boss. Named after the late Amon Carter, Texas booster and sulphurous publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, young Amon had shown early flashes of the same punch that Pop learned as a cub reporter on the Star-Telegram. A vice president at 21, Amon preferred chasing police cars to issuing executive commands; once he threatened to break a chair over Seigenthaler's head when assigned to yet another park-concert story...