Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superior to those of unmanned vehicles. Last week the Air Force announced that it would contract with Los Angeles' North American Aviation, Inc. for development of the WS (for weapon system) -110A, an intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will use not the ordinary fuels such as kerosene and gasoline but materials probably composed, in part, of boron, an element of the familiar household cleansing chemical borax...
...ground in case of actual attack, almost none to spare for training or readiness flights, although it is basic SAC policy to keep part of its bombers in the air at all times in order to 1) reduce vulnerability to surprise attack, and 2) speed retaliation. Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred J. McNeil, sometime rear admiral, U.S.N.R., refused to release extra funds for gasoline, insisted that SAC must have wasted M. & O. (maintenance and operations) money for golf courses and other frivolities. Whether or not he was right about that-SAC, of course, denied the charge-the hard fact was that...
...Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White testified that lack of funds has stalled SAC's "minimum" program for dispersing its bases and improving its capacity for getting into the air fast in an alert. The Administration, said LeMay, has done nothing since Sputnik I to speed up the minimum program, or even to restore the cuts that SAC took during the Pentagon's frantic dollar pinch in the last months of fiscal...
...manufacturer, Convair, had been told to push ahead faster. Replied Douglas: "I believe so ... I cannot answer personally-of my own knowledge." (Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed the firm to speed up the Atlas program.) Later on in his testimony Douglas proved to be unaware that the Air Force recently ordered a 50% cutback in production of its 5.000-mile subsonic Snark guided missile...
...Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts to guard civilians against the health hazards of nuclear radiation. ¶Ultrasound vibrations (TIME, Dec. 2), already available for high-speed painless drilling, were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine...