Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white collar occupations are available' here as in any other industry. Good selling and desk jobs need filling for the aviation people in todays' complicated business environment, but companies don't scout for men to fill them. The search is for the future inventor of an economical rocket, a foolproof de-icer, or a radical new wing design...
...thousands of bright-cheeked 4-H* Club members, a grand championship at a big livestock show is a headier dream than flying a rocket to the moon. Last week, at the top-billed International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago's International Amphitheater, the coveted purple ribbon went to Lone Star, a Hereford owned by 18-year-old Sue White of Big Spring, Texas, the third girl to win the award in the show's 54-year history...
...plane was built as a flying laboratory, loaded with 1,200 Ibs. of instruments, to explore sustained flying at very high speeds. This ruled out rocket motors, which use so much fuel that they can deliver full power for only a few minutes. Whether the X-3's turbo jets proved powerful enough to drive it at the speed for which it was designed is still an official secret. Bridgeman, Douglas, the Air Force and the Navy have now finished with the X3, are turning it over to the NACA for further research work without talking about its performance...
...example. Leonard has made several visits to White Sands for TIME, to Wright Field, and to the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine near San Antonio, Texas. He first met Wernher von Braun. head of the former V-2 rocket project, for a TIME story in 1946 when Von Braun was brought to Fort Bliss, Texas as a civilian employee of the War Department. There was also new research which included hours spent browsing in Leonard's own extensive home library at Hastings-on-Hudson, more interviews with scientists, including members of both the American Rocket Society...
MATHIESON Chemical Corp. will offer $16 a share to buy a half-interest in Reaction Motors, Inc., maker of rocket engines, 32% owned by Laurance Rockefeller. Mathieson, which has just opened a plant to produce hydrazine for rocket fuel, is willing to pay nearly $1,000,000 to get a steady market for the product...