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...well-entrenched monopoly whose foreign news came from cartels, such as Britain's Reuters and France's Agence Havas; subsidized or directly influenced by their governments, they divided the world into noncompetitive preserves. After the U.P.' challenged the cartels, the A.P. eventually followed suit. Testy Titan Scripps thus had some reason for his pride when he said: "I regard my life's greatest service to the people of this country to be the creation of the United Press...
...Titan & Atlas. So far, most of the production-and most of the profit-has gone to two giants in the field: General Tire's Aerojet subsidiary and North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division, both of which got in on the ground floor and today account for almost 75% of all the rocket-engine business. Founded in 1942 by Theodore von Karman, who now acts as a consultant, and a group of scientists at California Institute of Technology, Aerojet plodded along until 1945 when General Tire bought up 50% of its stock for a bargain $75,000, later increased...
...them all, the biggest and most important electronics project is the development of the Air Force's intercontinental ballistics missiles, the 5,500-mile Atlas and Titan and the 1,500-mile intermediate missile Thor. The heart, nerves and brains of the giant warbirds are fantastically complex electronic-guidance systems. That the job of" supervising this project, on which the survival of the U.S. depends, was not given to one of the familiar electronic giants-American Telephone & Telegraph, Radio Corp. of America, International Business Machines, General Electric, Sylvania, Westinghouse-but to Los Angeles' Ramo-Wooldridge is a perfect...
...airplanes of 5,000 miles range which, unlike the ICBM, can be controlled by their mechanism on their infinitely slower way all the way to the target. The Air Force is also developing Rascal, a promising supersonic air-to-surface missile; Thor, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile; and Titan, a second design for an ICBM. The Navy has a costly but promising project to develop Polaris, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile which will carry a nuclear warhead; Navy has the concept of firing it in event of war from nuclear submarines, maybe underwater, posted off the coasts...
Washington, March 27--Teamster titan Dave Beck, a Fifth Amendment witness, wound up an initial appearance before Senate rackets probers today under scorching denunciation for "arrogant contempt...