Word: thor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaints that Nikita Khrushchev has leveled against the West, one of the angriest is that the NATO nations are threatening the Iron Curtain countries with a ring of nuclear missile bases. Great Britain already has Thor bases, and Jupiter is on the way to Italy. Last week from Washington came reports that still another base for 1,000-mile IRBMs will soon be installed. The site: Turkey...
...response to a request by the Icelandic government," the Defense Department last week removed Air Force Brigadier General Gilbert Pritchard from his job as boss of the U.S. forces in Iceland. Pritchard was relieved from duty after Thor Thors, Iceland's Ambassador to the U.S., called on the State Department to talk over the latest "incident" to rag sensitive Icelandic tempers. Ambassador Thors put it plainly: Icelanders were hopping mad because a U.S. sentry forced two of their people to lie on wet ground at the NATO Airbase in Keflavik while he called a sergeant to check their credentials...
...wake of the Russian moon triumph, U.S. spacemen had two failures and one success last week. A Jupiter rocket blew up, and a Thor Able navigation satellite failed to orbit. The bright spot was the last of the much-criticized Vanguards, which put a 50-lb. payload in a high orbit expected to last 30 years or more...
MISSILE-INCENTIVE contract at cost of $29,209,851 was won by General Electric Co. to build Thor IRBM nose cones. First Air Force incentive contract in missile field will mean bigger profits if G.E. effects production savings and exceptional product performance...
ICBMs Atlas 28 13 6 9 Titans 5 4 0 1 IRBMs Jupiter 21 15 5 1 Thor...