Word: nike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More than 100 guided-missile launching sites for Nike antiaircraft rockets (which can shoot some 20 miles at supersonic speeds to destroy planes in mid-air). ¶ Several hundred emplaced 90-mm. and radar-aimed Skysweeper antiaircraft guns manned by 20,000 soldiers...
...NIKE MISSILE production is being stepped up fast. The Army has just signed a contract with Douglas Aircraft and Western Electric to convert a 76-acre Quartermaster Corps depot in Charlotte, N.C. into a missile factory employing 1,500 men. First production: early...
...tactical rockets, each fitted to carry either atomic or conventional (TNT) warheads: ¶The "Corporal," a huge supersonic rocket designed to strike selected targets up to 100 miles behind enemy lines. Remotecontrolled, it is a bigger, surface-to-surface cousin of the Army's high-altitude "Nike" antiaircraft guided missiles...
They wrote "Wah-Hoo-Wah" on the Nike...
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