Word: icbm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BIGGEST DEFENSE ORDER since World War II for General Electric Co. for developmental work was disclosed by Air Force. Contract is for $158 million worth of G.E. missile nose-cones to go on Atlas ICBM and Thor IRBM...
Dismayed outsiders saw multimillion-dollar disaster in the Atlas' crash. Air Force missilemen, although disappointed that the ICBM failed to complete its assigned course (well under extreme range), quickly claimed a "scientific success," i.e., failure had been mechanical, did not involve basic design, hence would be relatively easy to correct. Even in the 55 seconds of Atlas' brief debut, films and complex recording devices had furnished valuable data on its characteristics in flight...
...effect, ex-Paratrooper Gavin was arguing that the Army, instead of the Air Force, should be assigned to the area defense (as well as point defense) of the U.S. against Soviet ICBM attack. The Army, said Gavin, is better oriented for the air-defense job of the future: "We want 100% air defense and we consider this attainable. There has been no schizophrenia in the Army about how to get an air defense. We haven't worried about [jet] interceptors. We have gone after missiles . . . Very little, if anything, is going to get through...
...stock for a bargain $75,000, later increased its holdings to 95%. Since then, by pouring in funds for research and development, General Tire has helped Aerojet land contracts for a family of 15 rocket engines. At. its two California plants, Aerojet makes engines for the Titan ICBM, each of which produces an estimated 250,000 Ibs. of thrust (v. some 20,000 Ibs. for the biggest conventional jet), also has contracts for a series of smaller engines ranging from the Navy's 1,500-mile submarine-launched Polaris missile to the Army's Nike Ajax antiaircraft rocket...
...becoming an increasingly big percentage of the company's total business. By spending an initial $1,000,000 right after World War II on its Rocketdyne Division, pumping in another $26 million, since then for five plants and test facilities, North American won contracts for the Atlas ICBM power plant, the engines for the Thor and Jupiter intermediate missiles. From a start of five men in 1945, North American's Rocketdyne Division has expanded to 10,500 employees, and its sales of some $165 million (18% of North American's total) last year led the industry. Aerojet...