Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incoming missiles into North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs and into the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Theoretically, SAC would have 20 minutes or so to get thermonuclear bombers airborne while the President or his authorized deputies take the decision whether or not to launch the bomber counterstrike. The President or his deputies will also decide-in perhaps five minutes-whether or not to launch the U.S.'s handful of intercontinental missiles, which, unlike aircraft, cannot be recalled. Tactical assumption: the Communists, if attacking the U.S., will fire clouds of missiles, which will be unmistakable...
Slowdown. As the gilded cone climbed through the earth's weakening gravitational field, it slowed down. Nineteen hours after launch, it was 190,000 miles from the earth's surface and moving at 4,700 m.p.h. Forty-one hours after launch, it passed the moon's orbit and plunged into translunar space, still moving at 4,525 m.p.h...
...North Pacific especially for the Discoverer series, heard nothing for 1 hr. 30 min. Then a Hawaiian station heard a brief, faint signal. After five more hours of silence, Air Force stations in Alaska and the U.S. began to pick up sporadic signals. Last week, nearly five days after launch, the Department of Defense felt able to announce that Discoverer I was in polar orbit. But it had not been spotted visually, perhaps because its orbit carried it over the world's inhabited areas in bright daylight or darkness, when it is hard to see. The nine-station radio...
Repertory Boston, the country's only professional repertory organization and the first of its kind in Boston's theatre history, will launch its spring season Tuesday evening at the Wilbur Theatre, where it will continue through June...
Bell executives recently ran a test in Baltimore, discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...