Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24--Sen. Flanders (R-Vt.) called on President Eisenhower today to balance a projected speedup in missile production with a comprehensive plan for future world disarmament...
...chief of the 1918 St. John's yearbook. The Trumpeter. Barely 17. he was one of the youngest cadets ever admitted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. At the age of 18, graduating 148th out of 270 in one of World War I's speedup classes, he was one of the youngest cadets ever commissioned...
...must come down from 50,000 ft. to 18,000 ft. and from 650 m.p.h. to a stall-warning 250 m.p.h. to hook on to SAC's prop-driven KC-97 tankers (the equivalent of Boeing's old airline Stratocruisers). Remedy: a speedup of supply of the KC-135 jet tankers now dribbling into the Air Force at the rate of about four a month...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18--A two-month speedup in the date for launching the first full-fledged U.S. earth satellite was listed as a possibility by the Navy today. A spokesman said that, if the navy is successful with its 6.4-inch, 31/4-pound test satellite next month, the 20-inch sphere carrying complex instruments might be fired into orbit in January rather than March, as originally planned. Vanguard now possesses a higher priority than it did in the past--a development that has just occurred, the Navy man declared...
...Government last week turned full face to enter the age of the satellite. It left behind the notions that no speedup was necessary in missile and satellite development, that the administrative organization of the defense establishment was satisfactory, that interservice rivalries were somehow healthy, that the budget remained sacrosanct even while Red moons spun through the sky. Just a few weeks before, President Eisenhower, asked at his press conference if he might name a special White House scientific adviser, replied: "I hadn't thought of that." Last week he not only appointed such an adviser but gave...