Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels served up roasted pig for dinner. The hostages were shown bomb casings with U.S. markings, were taken to see a dead three-year-old boy 'with a big hole in his head' from a Batista air raid. They were also harangued about the delivery of 300 rocket warheads to the Cuban air force at the Guantánamo base on May 18-the event that touched off the protest kidnapings...
...sharp summer thunderstorm crackled across the St. Lawrence Valley, crowds of raincoated tourists scrambled to the crest of a high dirt dike near Cornwall. Ont. one morning last week and peered through the mist toward a stubby earthen dam 2½miles away. At 7:55 a warning rocket arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick stream, then...
...19th century, they were ruthlessly held down by entrenched academicians who controlled the Salon exhibitions. Many of them were grizzled veterans before they began to pay their way with their paintings. When impressionist painting suddenly swept into fashion at the turn of the century, their prices began a rocket ascent that is still going strong. Last week, with France's President René Coty on hand to officiate, the battlers for impressionism reached new stature in their own land. At last they have a worthy museum of their own, in the remodeled two-story Jeu de Paume...
...workers was doubled soon after the original building was occupied; so was the solid-fuel engineering building. Entire new divisions were formed, and flourished. Example: Aerojet's Architect-Engineering Division, formed in 1947 to serve specialized needs, was called upon to serve as structural engineer for the rocket test station at Edwards Air Force Base on a $2,000,000 contract. It went on to a similar job at the Navy's missile test station at Point Mugu, Calif., the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Martin Co.'s Denver plant...
Today, though rockets for the Titan and Polaris missiles still account for the bulk of Aerojet's business, the company is moving fast across the whole spectrum. It formed an Astronautics Laboratory in 1956 to pursue abstract proposals for space flight, acquired two small companies to get ideas and lab space. An ordnance engineering division was set up to explore automation. A third new division, Aerojet-General Nucleonics, is about the most successful of all. Founded two years ago to study the application of nuclear energy to rocket propulsion, it soon went far beyond. The division, says President Kimball...