Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbine III with her. Mamie had brought a cook, her personal secretary, her maid, half a dozen Secret Service agents, her sister "Mike" (wife of retired Army Lieut. Colonel George Gordon Moore), and an old friend. Mrs. Ellis D. Slater (wife of the retired president of Frankfort Distillers Corp.). The management's delicate logistics problem was how to post secret Secret Service men so that they 1) could guard Mamie while she was in or near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find a spot...
There were three critical solid-fuel rocketry breakthroughs: 1) development at Caltech and Aerojet-General Corp. of a new type of solid fuel that will last a year or more inside underground launching cylinders without cracking; 2) development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology of a new-type guidance gyro that can be kept running continuously inside the underground slots for as long as two to three years; 3) successful testing by Thiokol Chemical Corp. of the biggest solid-fuel rocket engine ever built, with more than enough thrust to meet ICBM requirements...
Missiles and spaceships may some day carry magnets to keep their noses cool when they plunge into the atmosphere. Dr. Joseph L. Neuringer of Republic Aviation Corp. has already worked out a system of magnetohydrodynamic for hydromagnetic) insulation...
Nuclear Batteries. Passing rapidly over these projects, Engineer Putt expressed enthusiasm for the military satellite that is being developed by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. under the various names of Pied Piper, ARS and Weapon System117L. By next July 1, he said, $50 million will have been spent on the Pied Piper, and $100 million more will be spent in fiscal 1959. The chief failing of present-day satellites is that their batteries run down too quickly to permit them to perform useful military duties such as worldwide reconnaissance. But the Air Force is working on four improved sources of power...
...proxies from stockholders for the first time. But it will have to battle some of the brightest lights of U.S. business. Among the rebelling foundation trustees-appointed by R. H. Kress himself-are New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston; Frank M. Folsom, executive committee chairman of Radio Corp. of America; and Harold H. Helm, board chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank...