Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owned a 47-acre Connecticut estate at Fairfield, a house with a dining room imported from the 18th century London home of David Garrick, 6,500 acres of Maine farm-and woodland, and six Saint Bernards. At this point of conspicuous prestige, on June 17, 1952. Fox signed a contract to buy the 121-year-old Boston Post. From then on, the road led down...
...days later, Oscar sprang another surprise on long-suffering KCOP-TV: he gave the station six days' notice (he had no contract), announced he was switching to Channel 9, which he had only days before characterized as "the Skid Row channel." On his last KCOP shows he laid into KCOP lustily: "I am in a stream of very bad consciousness. Wherefore of late I have lost my mirth, to quote General Trujillo, I want to express my appreciation for the lack of cooperation, the lack of consideration, the lack of even primitive facilities, which have made...
...Project Dyna-Soar, to shoot a manned rocket-powered aircraft into orbit around the earth and return. Martin and Boeing were named by the Defense Department to head two teams of companies that will present competing proposals for the Dyna-Soar contract. Aerojet was picked to help develop the power plant and the test facilities for the Boeing team...
Space & Atoms. What saved the company in the postwar planemaker's famine was the same thing that made it grow in the first place: new ideas, plus topflight research into new fields. Gradually extending its contract to 87% ownership, General Tire gave Kimball the funds he needed to push Aerojet into liquid engines for some of the first U.S. military rockets: Douglas' early Nike, the Lark and Loon for the Navy. Aerojet branched out to work on underwater rocket engines, set up separate departments to pursue both liquid-and solid-fuel engines...
...solid-fuel engineering building. Entire new divisions were formed, and flourished. Example: Aerojet's Architect-Engineering Division, formed in 1947 to serve specialized needs, was called upon to serve as structural engineer for the rocket test station at Edwards Air Force Base on a $2,000,000 contract. It went on to a similar job at the Navy's missile test station at Point Mugu, Calif., the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Martin Co.'s Denver plant...