Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simultaneously, the Defense Department announced plans to build a 65-million-dollar missile site near Cheyenne, Wyo, apparently to launch 5000-mile American intercontinental ballistic missiles when such devices are ready. Dr. John Hagen, director of Project Vanguard, also told reporters that his scientists expect to put a sin-inch test satellite into orbit next month, and to follow it with a fully instrumented, 20-inch sphere in March. Preliminary tests have been successful, Hagen said. "All we have to do now is to set it up and light the fuse," he stated...
...Sputniks. For days past, Karandash, a famed Russian clown, had been convulsing Moscow audiences by exploding a small balloon, then explaining, "That is the American Sputnik." Never one to pass up a surefire gag, Nikita, too, harped on U.S. discomfiture: "The U.S. announced that it was preparing to launch an earth satellite to be called the Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia's new technological power as an instrument of international blackmail...
...quiet session of the Knesset. Only half the members were present, and four chairs at the Cabinet ministers' table stood empty. An Israeli M.P. was recalling the peril that faced his nation exactly a year before, when its troops stood ready to launch their attack on the Sinai Peninsula. A small object flew through the air from the direction of the visitors' gallery. Like the well-trained old soldier that he is, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion ducked to the floor as the missile hurtled past his snowy, hair, but nobody else moved. A second later, the tossed hand...
...Navy Vanguard fired at Cape Canaveral, Fla. climbed 109 miles in the first-stage test of the three-stage rocket that will, according to schedule, launch a fully instrumented U.S. outer-space satellite next spring...
India, for example, had a successful $4 billion five-year industrialization plan that ended in 1955 after increasing national income 17.5%, per capita income 10.5%, industrial output 38%. Then India decided to launch a second. $10 billion expansion plan. But the expected foreign capital was not available, and costs turned out to be grossly underestimated. With the government forced to cut imports to save foreign exchange, food prices have risen 16% in six months. India's neighbor. Pakistan, is not much better off. Once the breadbasket of undivided India, Pakistan had virtually no industry. In the struggle to industrialize...