Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your [Oct. 4] article on Litton's "Tex" Thornton certainly symbolized the good that evolves from a government ir which men have the freedom to pursue new ideas. The story helped to impress upon me the fact that there are opportunities available in this country to all who wish to make the effort...
...cackled when I read your article on Thornton. Ten years ago when he left Hughes, I researched him, liked what I read, walked into his office cold and came out with a $15,000-a-year public relations contract. Hoping to get a raise from the skinflint that I worked for in Chicago, I phoned the news to get a go-ahead. He said, "Go back and ask for $30,000-he'll never last the year...
...Thornton, of course, refused, I quit, and I hope that somewhere in the Tribune Tower someone is flogging himself with old press releases...
...share of space projects: it made the first space chamber and spacesuit, is making a relief map of the moon so that astronauts will know what they are in for, has created a wind tunnel that simulates the problems of re-entry by speeding up gases. But Thornton is convinced that "there isn't room in space for all the companies trying to get there," has turned the company's eyes downward into the sea. Ingalls has five contracts worth $145 million to build the Navy's new nuclear-powered attack submarines, which may be the destroyers...
Science Fact. The men at Litton are aware of the problems, but they are optimistic about the long-range effects of technological revolution, believing that great new industries will arise to create even more employment. Thornton sees technology as eventually "freeing man's intellect for decision making, and freeing his creative powers for the contemplation, theorizing and development of yet newer technologies that can put into use the great abundance of energy available to mankind." For a man like Thornton, who wants to "build and keep building," the exciting possibilities ahead far outweigh any possible hazards...