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...world's neutralists would not be offended. In retrospect, giving jurisdiction of the satellite programs to the service that knew least about it was a blunder-and it was protested by Medaris, Von Braun & Co. But the Huntsville team had some consolation: it did have a 1955 go-ahead on the Jupiter intermediate-range missile...
...Builder. At the age of 19, Vaselli enlisted in the army for one single purpose: to save enough money to buy eight mules and a partnership with a go-ahead drayman. Even then, Vaselli had one overriding maxim: "Never spend in a month more than you make in a week." By this Spartan pecuniary principle, Vaselli waxed rich before World War I, contracting to haul away the garbage that householders had been tossing into Rome's fly-fouled streets...
...plans for an anti-missile missile, the Wizard II, which could search out an incoming enemy ICBM and explode it high in the atmosphere. The Wizard could conceivably be put into production by 1965 (at a cost of up to $5 billion) if the Defense Department gives an immediate go-ahead for a crash program...
...facts-and McElroy used them to make his top-level decisions. When a scientist wrote P. & G. suggesting that fluorine in toothpaste might prevent tooth decay, the company hired the scientist, launched an intensive research project which came up with the information that enabled McElroy to give the go-ahead on Crest...
Increasingly, McMahon turned his attention to natural gas, hounded the B.C. government to open up lands for exploration. When the go-ahead came in 1947, Frank McMahon was in line at 8 a.m. at the government offices; he bought permits No. i, 2 and 3 for $1,800,000, thus obtained rights to 3,000,000 acres. Incorporating Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. in 1949, McMahon three years later brought in his first gas well, Pacific Fort St. John No. 3. By 1955 McMahon won permission from the U.S. Federal Power Commission to export gas to the U.S., started to build...