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Once again, Harrison Otis' Times stepped up the booster campaign, this time in harmony with a newly founded Chamber of Commerce, which rounded up the best brains in town, dedicated them to making the city bigger. The new bugle call-climate, opportunity-blared into Iowa and Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Minnesota. Droves of families heeded it and headed West...
...founding in 1941, is just getting into mass production. Reaction made the first 350-lb. thrust engine for World War II's experimental Gorgon flying bomb, built the liquid fuel engines for Bell's X-1 series rocket planes. Currently, Reaction is at work on a rocket booster for a U.S. Air Force plane, has a contract to produce rockets with 500,000 Ibs. of thrust for supersonic Air Force test sleds. Another project: the rocket engine for North American's piloted X-15 rocket plane, which is scheduled to fly at altitudes...
...first long-range missile interceptor in the U.S. arsenal, Boeing's Bomarc looks much like a jet fighter minus the pilot's cockpit. Its 47-ft. fuselage (longer than that of a Sabre jet) packs a pair of Marquardt ramjet engines and an Aerojet rocket booster (see above) that push the missile along at 1,500 m.p.h.. give it a range of 250 miles v. 50 miles for Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles. Once launched from a trailer-like "transporter-erector," an electronic guidance system flies the Bomarc, seeks out the enemy formation until it gets close enough...
...particular, prospective travelers should immediately begin their series of tetanus shots, since they take two full months to administer. The Health Service advises tetanus shots for anyone leaving the country. In the case of those who have been innoculated within the past five years, however, only a booster shot may be necessary...
Dunster is not without its shortcomings, as even its most vehement booster would admit. In recent years the House composition has been overbalanced toward the sciences and social sciences, particularly government, with a corresponding scarcity of humanities concentrators...