Word: haglund
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Success Incentive. Under a newly-appointed triumvirate consisting of JPL's Surveyor Project Manager Robert Parks, Deputy Manager Howard Haglund and Hughes's Program Manager Robert Roderick, JPL-Hughes staffs were imbued with an "I think I can, I think I can" philosophy. To increase efficiency and desire at Hughes, NASA substituted an incentive contract for the old cost-pius-a-fixed-fee contract providing substantial financial gains only for successful missions...
Something went wrong. What J.P.L.'s Surveyor Project Manager Howard J. Haglund thought was "a perfectly normal flight" abruptly ended less than two seconds before Surveyor 4's retrorocket was scheduled to stop firing 40,000 ft. above the moon as all radio contact ended. The best guess at J.P.L. is that the retrorocket exploded, blasting the craft to bits. Whether that actually happened, or whether Surveyor 4 disintegrated on impact, is a mystery that may never be solved-unless astronauts some day hike to the target site and examine the wreckage...
Prized Order. Of Sweden's 30 steelmakers, two dominate the stainless blade market. One is Sandvik Steel Works, a $100 million-a-year company that sells more than half of the world's regular razor-blade steel. Its far-traveling president, Engineer Wilhelm Haglund, 60, made several flying trips to Boston in the past year to win the prized order to become Gillette's prime supplier for stainless...