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From the palmetto-dotted public beach that adjoins the launching sites, newsmen glimpsed test-firings of the 5,000-mile Navaho and the less complex Snark which superseded it, covered the first successful firing of the Air Force's Thor (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end the newsmen were standing by for the biggest bird of all, the second attempt to launch the 5,000-mile ICBM Atlas...
Cutback. Half the metal in North American's Navaho missile was to be titanium; Republic built the all-titanium XF-103 experimental fighter. But both projects were scrubbed in recent defense cutbacks. Production of Boeing's B-52 bomber, whose Pratt & Whitney J57 engine took more than 50% of all titanium mill output last year, was stretched out. To compound the trouble, the Government cut stockpile buying to a trickle...
...will be accomplished simply by not replacing workers who quit. By year's end Douglas will reduce its 76,000-man force by 8,000, and Lockheed will shrink its 60,000-man force by 5,000. North American Aviation, which laid off 7.300 workers after its Navaho missile was washed out last month, will drop another 4,700. Boeing will pare its 100,000-man force by about 10,000, but last week it resumed advertising for skilled and semiskilled workers...
...words glower more darkly out of the memory of the Depression than unemployment (24.9% of the working force at the 1933 depth). Yet when the Air Force canceled its $500 million Navaho missile project last month, and Los Angeles' North American Aviation Inc. direly proclaimed that it would have to lay off 15,600 men, this is what happened...
...bomber was "stretched out." Defense plant overtime was curtailed. Thirty-three small Navy installations were ordered closed down. With the slow-flying intercontinental Snark missile on line and the rocket-powered intercontinental ballistics missile around the corner, Wilson scrapped the Air Force's $500 million long-range Navaho to save $1 billion needed to make the bird operational...