Time Clock, Mar. 18, 1957

"EXOTIC" FUELS for jet planes and missiles will be turned out by new industry. Gallery Chemical Co. started work on a $38 million plant at Muskogee, Okla. to produce "HiCal" for Navy from boron. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. won $33,005,000 Air Force contract for a new high-energy chemical-fuel plant near Niagara Falls. In addition to stepping up range and speed of present missiles and jets, new fuels will make possible radical new top-secret Air Force chemical bomber, for which North American and Boeing have design contracts.

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