Word: thiokol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combustion. They hit upon a polysulfide-a rubbery, sticky liquid that could be poured, solidified, then burned at a controllable rate. It worked, and is now the basis for the Navy's Polaris and all other solid-fuel U.S. rockets. The small company that made it, Thiokol, has become one of the leaders of the new space industry. J.P.L. does not mind; once something developed at the laboratory works satisfactorily, J.P.L. passes on to other things...
Just after World War II, Navy brass urged Rockefeller to bail out a sputtering rocket pioneer, Reaction Motors. Against his financial aide's advice, Rockefeller put up $500,000. After a tough decade, Reaction grew strong enough to merge with Thiokol Chemical Corp. last year, and Rockefeller got Thiokol stock that is now worth $4,200,000. In 1950, Rockefeller put $202,000 into low-flying Marquardt Aircraft Co., a pioneer in ramjet propulsion; his interest zoomed to $5,200,000 after Marquardt started making ram-jets for the Bomarc missile. But the fastest rise...
Chemicals 1958 1959 Du Pont $3.08 $4.61 Wyandotte .14 1.22 Freeport Sulphur .79 .91 Union Carbide 1.66 3.00 Olin Mathieson .74 1.32 Thiokol .22 .65 Rails 1958 1959 Pennsylvania Railroad loss $ .48 New York Central Railroad loss 1.56 Miscellaneous RCA $ .86 1.29 B.F. Goodrich 1.60 2.18 Kennecott Copper 2.07 4.32 Libbey-Owens-Ford .57 3.16 Pepsi-Cola .85 .97 American Machine & Foundry 1.38 2.27 Texaco 2.37 2.79 National Distillers .88 1.05 National Cash Register .96 1.07 Phillips Petroleum...
...half a dozen companies weighed in with stock splits and higher dividends. Rocket enginemaker Thiokol Chemical Corp., drugmaker Chas. Pfizer and Colgate-Palmolive split three for one, Lily-Tulip Cup two for one. Eastman Kodak, whose stock has nearly doubled in value, to $152.50 a share in the last two years, voted a new share of stock for each one held, then tacked another 9? per share onto its dividend. With that kind of news last week, who could blame anyone for buying a share of U.S. industry...
This week, at the New York meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, Engineer Harold W. Ritchey of Thiokol Chemical Corp. explained some of the tricks that are used to make solid rockets behave. One method, he said, is to put vanes in the gas jet. When their angles are changed, they deflect the stream of gas like a rudder. This system was used on the German wartime V2, but the vanes add a lot of drag, and they must be made of highly heat-resistant material if they are to last even the few minutes needed to do their...