Word: titanically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year is 1944. He is a paratrooper without fear, brains or money. She is the mistress of an industrial titan (George Sanders), who keeps her in his elegant Manhattan mansion, where they "get along rather well in those rather delicate areas where it seems important for a man and woman to get along." Tab follows her there, mumbles that he loves her. But Sanders also thinks highly of her, proposes marriage, offers her a name "that's regarded rather like being named Windsor in England." Will she take the baby-faced lad, or will she marry the devoted gentleman...
...planemaking. He shifted into missiles and electronics, busily worked to get dozens of Government contracts that looked none too inviting to other companies, because the profit was less than on commercial business. Now Martin has contracts for six different missiles (including the surface-to-surface Mace and the Titan ICBM). more than any other company, making up a plump missile-and-electronics backlog of $600 million. Earnings, on the rise, are expected to hit $4.50 a share this year. Says Bunker: "We were either lucky or smart, and we don't care which. We got in first...
...Thor. B. Titan C. Poof. D. Snark...
...Biggest failure of the week was the Air Force's attempted firing of its 5,500-mile ICBM Titan. For the U.S.'s potentially most lethal ICBM, it was the first test for the full two-stage assembly. But the missile never left the ground, disintegrated in an explosion on the launching...
...TITAN NOSE CONE will be developed by Avco Corp. under $73,360,000 Air Force contract. New design will permit faster re-entry into the atmosphere by dissipating excess heat through erosion of high-heat resistant materials...