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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pipe Dream. Near Altus, Okla., employees of the Sooner State Drilling & Producing Co. set up a drill rig, smiled with surprise as they struck a 4.000-bbl.-an-hour gusher a mere 2½ ft. beneath the earth's surface, checked the find more closely, then hastily removed their equipment, repaired the gap in the 16-in. pipeline owned by the Service Pipe Line Co. of Tulsa...
...long-awaited break in the grey overcast, plopped its no tons into the warm Atlantic 300 miles downrange (maximum hoped-for range: 9,000 miles). The U.S.'s first successful firing of a second-generation ICBM (after Atlas) brought cheers from airmen and Titan's Martin Co. crew, weary from a two-month fight against the gremlins that unaccountably popped its umbilical cord and played other tricks on five previous countdowns. Since two previous firing fizzles took place on the launching pad, the crewmen could even boast-and did-that theirs was the first long-range U.S. missile...
Philadelphia Banker Gates (Drexel & Co.) took over the Navy Secretary's job in 1957 after four years as Under Secretary, demonstrated the same smartness he showed in World War 11 as a naval air intelligence officer. But Gates got torpedoed on two issues: 1) he argued unsuccessfully for Navy appropriations on a basis of Navy need as he saw it, rather than percentage of the overall four-service defense budget; 2) he offered stubborn resistance to President Eisenhower's Defense Reorganization Act on the ground that it would sap service secretaries' powers, take Navy units...
...Dave Lawrence & Co., representing the party's old pros, fear the increasing power of Western Democrats as represented by California's zealously liberal National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who swung the site-selection committee to Los Angeles. Beyond that, they are convinced that the liberal climate of a Los Angeles convention would work against their reaching a North-South compromise necessary for a united party in the 1960 elections. ¶ Los Angeles is Adlai Stevenson territory, and Paul Ziffren is one of the oldest and most devoted of Stevenson's followers. Since Ziffren would presumably be in charge...
Aboard the tug H. Thomas Teti Jr. on the choppy mist-veiled East River below, Co-Captains Samuel Nickerson and Everett Phelps suddenly heard a sound across the water like "dynamite going off." They flipped the wheelhouse searchlight on, saw, 800 ft. off the tug's bow, the shattered hulk of Flagship New York settling crazily into 20 ft. of water a mile short of the runway's green threshold lights. The tug cut loose two barges it was towing, churned towards the twisted wreckage, flashed a call for help to the Coast Guard. Nickerson gave the eight...