Word: icbm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibly less, must be traversed before General Schriever's mighty missile graduates from test flight to what he calls I.O.C., meaning "Initial Operational Capability." Many more years will be needed to bring it into U.S.'s front-line force-in-being. But already the impact of the ICBM and its supporting family of some 30 Air Force-Navy-Army rockets and ballistic and guided missiles is pressing the U.S., evenly, inevitably, inexorably, into a missile age in which the patterns of U.S. defense, U.S. industry and even U.S. life will be substantially made over...
...National Effort. ICBMs are already moving out of the heady cloisters of laboratory spacemen into the workaday world of production engineers and cost accountants. They will cost about $4,000,000 apiece for the first production run of a few hundred, it is reckoned, and sharply less after that. The first 1,000 ICBMs and the first three launching bases will be had, it is thought, for about the price of 800 6-47 medium jet bombers. And as the ICBM and its family flourish, so does its accompanying technology, e.g., new cameras so sensitive that they can photograph...
Everywhere the signs multiply that U.S. missilery is becoming a national effort. The work force of the missile family has increased recently to several hundred thousand; the work force of the ICBM alone has shot up from 7,000 to 70,000 within the past year. The armed forces will spend $6 billion on missiles next year-about 20% more than last year-and they are already phasing some missiles into the line in place of conventional equipment. In 1954 about 10% of Air Force procurement funds went for missiles; by 1960 the figure will...
Tomorrow's Men. As the man who leads the U.S. race to beat the Russians to a workable ICBM, and who sparks the U.S. surge toward space, General Schriever has what has been called "the most important job in the country." But the measure of the coming missile age is that today's dedicated, visionary missilemen are no longer considered unique or eccentric or extreme...
Schriever lost that battle, and some others. Of an early ICBM project, he said: "It had a questionable military value based on the then state of the art, so we sort of put it on the back burner." But interest in missiles was picking up, and one of the reasons was Schriever's visionary enthusiasm. Everywhere he debated and discoursed upon the values and virtues of missiles, missiles, missiles with such fervor that, according to one friendly scientist, "they thought Ben was insane...