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...Government last week took an old-fashioned ax to the next generation of U.S. military aircraft in what may well be the start of a new cutback in aircraft and missile programs. The Air Force announced that it was abandoning plans to produce high-energy boron aircraft fuels at Olin Mathieson Corp.'s two-city-block, $45 million plant near Niagara Falls, which was scheduled to deliver its first batch of exotic fuel this month. It also canceled a contract with the General Electric Co. for producing the J-93-5 engine to power North American Aviation...
EXOTIC FUEL DEAL will link Dow Chemical with U.S. Borax (TIME, June 10, 1957) to research ways for economic manufacture of boron trichloride, used in high-energy Space Age fuels...
...small National Electronics Laboratories (sales: about $500,000), and last month it bought up Pennsylvania's Hunter-Bristol Corp. (sales: $2,000,000 from electronics, aircraft and missile components, etc.). It has joined with Gallery Chemical Co. (25% owned by Gulf Oil Corp.) to explore boron-based solid fuels...
...system) -110A, an intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will use not the ordinary fuels such as kerosene and gasoline but materials probably composed, in part, of boron, an element of the familiar household cleansing chemical borax...
...spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science could even give humdrum old materials an exciting new lease on life. For years U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. mined borax for use as a household cleanser. Today Boron is a new wonder element, used in everything from drugs to super-powered rocket fuels...