Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocket fever here," said the manager of the Starlite Motel in Cocoa Beach, Fla. one day last week. "Everything centers on the Cape. We look at it and live with it every day." The Cape is Cape Canaveral, home of the Air Force missile test center, and the everyday facts of life of nearby Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne, Rockledge and Titusville-on Florida's east coast-probably have no parallel anywhere else in the world...
...land where highways are likely to be blocked so that trailers can haul their menacing, canvas-shrouded packages to the secret precincts beyond the gates. Tank trucks make shuttle runs between the Titusville railroad sidings and the Cape, carefully hauling highly volatile liquid oxygen for rocket fuel. It is a land of piercing shrieks and thunderous roars, and when the shrieks and the roars combine in one nerve-racking racket, housewives, office workers and schoolchildren rush outdoors to watch another missile on the way, and to compare notes on its performance...
...such suppliers as Whirlpool-Seeger Corp., Florence Stove Co., and Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co.; Gulf Oil has a 12% interest in Texas Gulf Sulphur, which supplies Gulf with sulphur; Olin Mathieson Chemical has 25.8% of Marquardt Aircraft and 50% of rocketmaker Reaction Motors, for which it is helping develop rocket fuel. And by successfully going back 30 years to trip Du Pont, trustbusters had won the right to try any company for things it did in long years past...
...largest known deposit of borax. To the housewife, borax is merely a household cleanser, 'but to industry it is the chief source of boron, a new wonder element and Jack-of-all-trades that can be used in everything from drugs and plastics to the super-powered rocket fuels of the future...
Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...