Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's other highly touted "secret," relayed via Humphrey, was that Russia has built an ICBM with a 14,000-km. (8,700 miles) range, but has yet to test it. Ike was not surprised at the range, since such a distance is within theoretical reach of the rocket engines that powered Sputnik. The President was more interested in Humphrey's report on Khrushchev's general manner, physical appearance, tone of voice. Democrat Humphrey left the President's office to savor the experience of occupying the center of the world's biggest Republican news stage...
...clear, calm night at Cape Canaveral. The Army, making its first attempt to shoot the moon, had spent weeks fussing over the Juno II, a 60-ton Jupiter IRBM with a spike of high-speed rockets mounted on its nose. At twelve seconds after 12:45 a.m., almost exactly on schedule, Juno II took off. It climbed loudly but smoothly, arching slightly north of east. For about three minutes the first-stage rocket burned brightly, diminishing slowly with distance. Then its power shut off, and the upper stages coasted flameless for 55 seconds. About 110 miles up and 160 miles...
...liquid look and act like a solid. So treated, castor oil becomes tasteless-because it is covered with gelatin. More than 1,000 companies are investigating the process to see if it can be used for their own products, and the Pentagon has contracted with National to "encapsulate" liquid rocket fuel so that it will pack the power of liquid propellant, yet have the handy convenience of a solid...
Helios is the latest model of Revell, Inc. of Venice, Calif., the world's largest maker of plastic model kits (nearly 30 million sold last year), whose retail sales have rocketed from $2,250,000 to $35 million in only ten years. Says Revell's 41-year-old President Lewis H. Glaser: "Assembling models is the nation's leading hobby. It even beats stamp collecting." This year total model kit sales will account for $75 million of the $1.5 billion spent on toys. Among Revell's new models for Christmas buying: a three-stage manned rocket...
...Peterson. After working as purchasing agents in the aircraft industry, the two joined forces in 1955 to make electronic instruments for the missile age. They turn out instruments that tell an aircraft's angle of attack, compute its Mach number electronically, time and program the firing of its rocket armament; there is even an instrument to measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios and navigational facilities for the CAA's airways-improvement program, Topp turned a profit of $879,974 on sales of better than $10 million last year...