Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told-what missiles hold the altitude and speed records. A strong contender for both titles is the Lockheed X17, a comparatively unambitious research job that was not designed to break either record. According to reliable scuttlebutt last week, the X-17 has climbed 600 miles straight up from Florida's Cape Canaveral. Coming down, it reached 9,240 m.p.h...
...missile is still in flight. No official leak has described its last moments, but an eyewitness of a night flight was enormously impressed. Rising from Cape Canaveral, the X-17 was aimed on this occasion so that it would come down in the Atlantic 80 miles east of Florida...
From coast to coast the speed of the new giant's growth is staggering. In Pinellas Park, Florida last week, General Electric just opened a multimillion-dollar X-ray plant. At St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Orlando, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator, Sperry-Rand and Glenn L. Martin Co. are planning three more plants and laboratories to produce guided-missile control systems and do advanced research in electronics. New England's electronics expansion has changed the name of Route 128 near Boston to "electronics highway" Massachusetts alone has some 500 electronics plants. And in Los Angeles, where a new electronics plant...
...customer. The electronics defense budget for the current year is $3 billion, more than any other single item except aircraft. The U.S. military establishment is rapidly becoming one vast electronics system, whose probing antennas and twirling radar reflectors are so sensitive that an upended card table floating off the Florida Keys was recently reported by a rookie radarman as "four unidentified submarines." Virtually every modern weapon depends upon electronics in some way, and the Army keeps track of its 100 million-item spare-parts inventory by electronic computers, which do the work of days in seconds. "Files," said one general...
...express the hope-which I know is shared by many others-that the Florida courts will help Mr. & Mrs. Ellis to keep the little girl Hildy. This child's life might easily be ruined if she is taken away from these people who love her, and whom she loves...