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...then known as Electric Boat-was coasting along with an annual sales volume of $26.9 million, mostly in submarines. Since then, he has picked up aircraftmakers Canadair Ltd. in Canada and giant Consolidated Vultee, changed the company name, expanded into guided missiles, atomic research and atomic submarines (the U.S.S. Nautilus), and boosted volume 25-fold (to $649 million last year). Last week Jay Hopkins put another feather in another hat. He announced that General Dynamics will diversify still more by taking over 61-year-old Stromberg-Carlson Co., which does a $65 million annual business in radio and TV sets...
Last week, again in Satevepost, Skipper Eugene P. Wilkinson of the atomic submarine Nautilus had an article about the sub's first tests containing material that had not been printed before. But what finally brought on the Pentagon's new "gag rule" was Admiral Carney's "background remarks" to a group of Washington correspondents in which he discussed Chinese Communist intentions toward Matsu and Quemoy (TIME, April...
Twelve members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee went to sea last week, for an overnight ride in the atomic submarine Nautilus. (Said California's Senator William Knowland: "This will be the deepest-thinking congressional committee meeting ever held.") Most Congressmen rushed back from their trip on the top-secret vessel full of enthusiasm and ready with tales of a night...
Albert Gore for the Associated Press: "How deep the Nautilus can dive is a secret. But there is no secret that I had nervous twinges as she plunged down in excess of 300 feet. How fast she will race through the dark, briny depths is also a secret. But it was the thrill of a lifetime to break all previous records in this respect as the midnight hour approached . . . The food we ate was cooked by atomic power. The water we drank was distilled from ocean water by atomic energy. The submarine was not only driven but lighted, heated...
...captain ordered the Nautilus put through her paces. The throttle was opened. The propeller surged, and we excitedly watched the dials as we went faster-down, down, down, down. Then, up; then down. Straight ahead. Full power. The speedometer needle moved rapidly clockwise, receding only as the Nautilus took sharp banks and turns . .Then, up again; then, down again; up again; down again ... I asked Admiral [Hyman] Rickover how many days the Nautilus could proceed under water at full speed. 'Indefinitely,' he answered.'Long enough to go the distance around the world, and the answer would still...