Word: fla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fueled ploy had some propaganda value, calling attention to the fact that they are ahead in the passenger-jet field. One side effect: the British, apparently suffering from wounded pride, hurriedly announced that they will fly a revamped Comet II this week from Northern Ireland to Orlando, Fla...
...others: Texan Walter W. Williams, 114, Virginian John Sailing, in), who volunteered in the Alabama guard at 17, was proud of his Confederate background and freely passed on his secret for a long life: "Keep away from them doctors, and take a little nip all along"; in Crestview, Fla...
Much of this confident reaction was based on the status of the U.S.'s own missile program. Last week a second test model of the 5,000-mile ICBM, the Atlas, stood erect and gleaming on its launching pad at sunny Cape Canaveral, Fla., ready to blast off. (The U.S.'s first Atlas, launched last June, was blown up in midair by an electronic signal after a fuel-system failure.) Back of the Atlas several dozen ICBMs are coming out of production plants in the race to possess a whole armory of mass-produced, operational missiles. "We have...
Even as Wilson ordered the IRBM nuptials, the Army reported that it had scored a major research breakthrough. A Redstone-built, rocket-powered Jupiter "C" test vehicle, fired 400 miles into the ionosphere from its launching site at Cape Canaveral. Fla.. reached a top speed of 12,000 m.p.h., dropped into the Atlantic with its nose cone intact, despite the destructive 20,000° friction heat generated on its "reentry" into the earth's atmosphere. Thus the Army laid claim to being the first to solve the fantastically complicated "reentry problem" (and also exulted in the fact that...
...Brandt? Late in April, still keeping his Brooklyn studio, Abel checked in at Manhattan's little Latham Hotel, off Fifth Avenue, as Martin Collins of Daytona Beach, Fla. On June 21 Agent Edward Boyle, of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, ordered to make a routine arrest of an illegal alien, found Abel in his hotel room along with a short-wave radio receiver and a bankbook showing deposits of $15,000. Checking Abel's pockets, Boyle discovered $6,000 and a clothing store receipt addressed to Emil Goldfus. "Who's he?" asked Boyle. "That...