Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After four months of tense anticipation by the aerospace industry, Washington last week chose a contractor for the nation's largest space project yet. To start work on the Apollo spacecraft, which is to carry three men to the moon and back, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration gave a $400 million initial order to Los Angeles' North American Aviation...
...sight of the headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor, and his baronet father built "beautiful railways...
Sperry Rand Corp. does 48% of its business with the Government. Among its projects: prime contractor for the Army's Sergeant surface-to-surface missile...
Ford Motor Co.-whose Aeronutronic Division has contracts worth $40 million for an antitank missile, multipurpose booster rocket, and the outer casing of a moon-probe vehicle-recently bought the $400 million-a-year Philco Corp., mainly for Philco's space-age electronics business (prime contractor for the Army Signal Corps Courier communications satellite, tracking and command equipment for the Discoverer satellite...
Flightex Fabrics, Inc. of Providence diversified into missiles from textiles, clay mining and cutting tools, is now prime contractor on the Law lightweight antitank rockets...