Word: titan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only just beginning. The job was given to SAC, which has had to assemble crews and drill into them the sciences of inertial guidance, pneumatics, electronics, hydraulics, cryogenics. After hours and hours of such studies, the trainees are sent on to specialized courses on various missiles (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman), then are assigned to combat crews...
Died. Gottlieb Duttweiler, 73. Swiss merchant titan who built the $250 million-a-year Migros cooperative food chain (also taxi fleets, sewing machines, Mi-grol gas and oil) by showing the Swiss how to fight price wars, then gave his super-marketing venture to his customers as their gain; of a heart attack; in Zurich...
...good management that has done it. Though they would rather submit to the thumbscrew than say so publicly, executives of rival auto companies privately concede the superiority of G.M.'s organization. Says one Detroit titan famed for his aggressive competition with G.M.: "General Motors is the best managed organization in American industry-or, for that matter, anywhere in the world." Says another Big Three executive: "The General Motors system is so well thought out that you could run almost any business in any field successfully by using the G.M. philosophy, method and standards of organizational living...
Moment's Notice. What makes Titan II unique is a storable fuel that requires no lox (liquid oxygen) and enables the missile to be ready to fire at a moment's notice. Lox, which is used in the Atlas and Titan I, is cheap and an efficient oxidizer, but its extreme cold ( - 297°F.) and its eagerness to boil away make it troublesome and unreliable. Instead of this chemical bad actor, Titan II uses nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer and a mixture of hydrazine and UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) as fuel. Both are liquids that can be stored...
Hypergolic Ignition. Besides being storable, Titan II's fuels are "hypergolic." This fancy word, too newly coined to be included in most dictionaries, means that the two liquids start burning furiously as soon as they come in contact. No igniting system is needed, and this advantage eliminates a missile designer's nightmare. Kerosene and lox, the commonest missile fuels, do not ignite on contact; furthermore, if they do not burn promptly, they form a powerful explosive mixture that can blow a missile to shreds...