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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...null people of Brigham City heard without much interest that an East Coast outfit with a peculiar name, Thiokol Chemical Corp., planned to build some sort of plant on a nearby desert. Few realized that the newcomer would turn their isolated, sheep-and-sugar-beet town into a booming center of U.S. rocketry. Today the rocket plant's employees number more than 3,000, flood Brigham City's roads with traffic and its schools with children. Ranch-style homes for engineers, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are spreading into the beet fields. This is only a beginning...
...Brigham City plant began as a research center and pilot plant for production of rocket engines filled with the rubbery solid fuel that was Thiokol's first contribution to rocketry. It has grown into 84 smallish structures scattered over miles of desert, but it still reflects the basic simplicity that is solid fuel's chief advantage over liquid. The liquid-fuel rocket engines that push the Thor and Atlas must be static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps...
...together the three stages and install the guidance system in the completed missile at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden. By 1963, the target date for Minuteman to reach full operational status, this area of dry hills and crags in northern Utah may be the most important missile center...
...proposed allowance for a Behavioral Sciences Center in the Program for Harvard College was originally $4,000,000. White said that about $2,000,000 would probably go into the construction, while the remainder might take the form of an endowment to be used for maintenance...
...Kirkland site figured in the initial plans for the Center. The space in the Medical Center was only an alternate suggestion, White stated. The present decision represents "what we thought we were going to do at this time last year...