Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MISSILE SPENDING is picking up speed. Air Force will soon start letting $721 million worth of contracts for super radar system designed to spot incoming ICBMs, has earmarked $329 million to be spent from supplemental funds in current fiscal year. Prime contractor: Radio Corp. of America, with major help from General Electric Co. and Western Electric...
...made: the vast, complex job of building a weapons system to intercept and destroy an attacking missile will be split in effect between two hotly competitive services. The Army will expand its Nike series with a contra-missile called Nike Zeus, and the Air Force will develop the missile radar-detection system to go with it. Both will be under McElroy's missile boss, William Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets under way. McElroy did not specify which service would operate the weapons system once it was developed...
...other hand, the line's big-city strips are long and smooth, and the terminals abound with electronic landing equipment, radar and comforts for passengers. Moscow's Victorian-style Vnukovo Airport compares with some of the best in the West, houses a transient hotel and a nursery with toys and cots for the tots...
After graduating from Wittenburg College, Lindsley held a National Research Council Fellowship at the Medical School and at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During the war he directed a project on the selection and training of radar operators for the Armed Services...
...Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid-fuel Hawk, designed to meet attack by enemy bombers scooping in at low level beneath U.S. radar...