Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TOTAL ARMY ROTC (training) College 6 mos. 7 1/2 yrs. 0 8 yrs. ROTC (active) College 2 yrs. 3 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. OCS 6 mos. 2 1/2 yrs. 1 yr. 2 yrs. 6 yrs. NAVY ROTC (regular) College 3 yrs. 2 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. ROTC (contract) College 2 yrs. 3 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. ROTC (air) College + 3 1/2 yrs. 1 1/2 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. OCS 4 mos. 3 yrs. 1 2/3 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. Av. OCS 4 mos. 3 1/2 yrs. 1 1/2 yrs. 1 yr. 6 yrs. NAVCAD...
...sowing a permanent cover of bluestem and grama grasses next year, they expect the Government to pay upwards of $15,000, about 80% of the seed and sowing costs. This subsidized sowing qualifies the land for federal "rent" at $11 an acre this year and, under a ten-year contract beginning in 1958, an ultimate total rent just about exactly equal to their initial investment of $94,000. "We figure," says Brown, "that in ten years we can pay for the farms under the soil bank...
What worries the Pentagon is that in the horsepower race the rest of the industry seems to be fighting a losing competitive battle. General Electric, which claims to have delivered more jet engines than any other manufacturer, lost its bread-and-butter J47 engine contract with the end of B-47 medium-bomber production. To replace it, G.E. has a new J79 engine (about 15,000-lb. thrust) for Convair's supersonic B58 bomber and Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed...
...Lawrence has already been scheduled for December 18 or 19, according to reports from the managers' office; this is expected to be a lone meeting in Cambridge, not the permanent home-and-home contract sought by the New York teams...
...EXOTIC" FUELS for jet planes and missiles will be turned out by new industry. Gallery Chemical Co. started work on a $38 million plant at Muskogee, Okla. to produce "HiCal" for Navy from boron. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. won $33,005,000 Air Force contract for a new high-energy chemical-fuel plant near Niagara Falls. In addition to stepping up range and speed of present missiles and jets, new fuels will make possible radical new top-secret Air Force chemical bomber, for which North American and Boeing have design contracts...