Word: schrievers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Schriever, in charge of development planning for Air Force headquarters, was one of the R and D officers who felt-and he proclaimed what he felt insistently-that a full survey of future nuclear warhead design ought to be made so as to shrink the cumbersome new hydrogen bomb into an ICBM. The H-bomb had a higher range of destruction than the Abomb, the argument went, and the need for pinpoint accuracy was therefore reduced...
Black Friday. The U.S.'s payoff bet is Ben Schriever's ICBM, and Schriever knows how to play for high stakes. One Friday a month, a day his staff calls Black Friday, he summons his key men into his project control room in WDD headquarters in Inglewood. This room is a massive vault whose walls, floors and ceilings are built of 6-in. concrete reinforced by steel; its treasures are guarded when the room is empty by two opaque glass hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound...
From outside as well as inside, the problems crowd in. One day recently Schriever's intermediate-range ballistic missile Thor misfired in Florida, rose 100 ft. and settled gently to its launching pad, where it cracked as it toppled over. The Army, which had test-fired a version of its Jupiter IRBM, was soon crowing bitterly that Thor was nothing but a no-good IPBM-interpad ballistic missile-and won a point in the bitter new interservice war (TIME, June...
Another day Schriever was told at the White House that his budget in fiscal 1958 was going to be cut by some 15%. Said a senior official: "I'm going to ask you to get along on this without retarding the program in any way-but if you run into trouble, come back and see me." Schriever tightened up his cost accounting, and said: "We have not been shorted. I know of no decision that we're going to get less money than is necessary...
...moon. Rocket motors, guidance systems and air frames needed for such a shot can almost be picked up off the shelf for assembly. ARDC has considered setting up an eleventh division for space and space technology. "We have the know-how to hit the moon right now," Schriever says flatly. "The ballistic missile program has established the resources to move into space. Man is inquisitive. He's going to keep pushing at the frontiers...