Word: thor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thor-Able to Lift Station...
Plans call for launching two experimental meteorological satellites containing cloud-scanning television cameras. The first, weighing 250 pounds, is scheduled for a mid-January launching by an Air Force Thor-Able rocket. The other will be sent up later next year...
...backing of a powerful segment of industry, no branch willingly gives up a promising weapon in favor of a similar one developed by a competitor. The Army's attempt to hold a place in space resulted in the Pentagon compromise to manufacture both the Jupiter (Army) and Thor (Air Force) intermediate-range ballistic-missile systems. Today's snowballing result is a duplication in production facilities, costly ground-handling equipment and training, as Jupiters are being installed in Italy and Turkey while Thors go to Great Britain. In second-generation, solid-pro-pellant missiles, the Navy's submarine...
Born 43 years ago into a wealthy Chicago family (Thor Power Tool Co.), Florsheim was a painfully shy child, channeled all his energies into straight-A scholarship and crude, gloomy art. His father reluctantly helped him get an art education in Europe during the 1930s, but before World War II Florsheim managed to sell just one picture...
...week the Air Force announced plans to shut down Ethan Allen Air Force Base in Vermont. NATO was warned that its tactical air strength in Europe might be cut back by three Air Force F-100 nuclear fighter-bomber wings, or 225 planes. The deployment in Europe of the Thor and Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic-missile squadrons would be cut back by one Thor squadron from eight to seven, leaving four IRBM squadrons in Britain, two to be installed in Italy and one in Turkey, and scratching plans for Greece...