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Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan

In late 1970, Lockheed was near bankruptcy because of the large debt they had built up to fund the L-1011 Tristar commercial aircraft program. They approached the Nixon administration for a $250 million loan guarantee to avoid insolvency. That is about $1.9 billion in today’s dollars. Here was an opportunity to transfer the assets to a private defe... See more

Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program

In the wake of the 1956 agreement, AT&T appeared to be indestructible. It now had the U.S. government’s blessing. It was easily the largest company in the world by assets and by workforce. And its Bell Laboratories, as Fortune magazine had declared, was indisputably “the world’s greatest industrial laboratory.” And yet even in the 1960s and 197

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

How the World Works

James Fallows theatlantic.com

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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The Manfield amendments were a huge blow to Project Whorl. Panic set in among the Trustees as they scheduled urgent meetings with top officials from the Nixon administration, including the president himself. Out of those meetings came a brilliant idea. The Gang of Eight has to be briefed on all special access programs, even those that are waived an... See more

Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program

In the fall of 1942, Major General Leslie R. Groves, representing the War Department, went to du Pont with the request that the company undertakes a share of a project of great importance in the war effort. This project dealt with the release of atomic energy. At the time, many other nations were working on different projects that could help end th... See more

Sriram Krishnan • Du Pont Bomb memo

The spreading “institutional matrix” for science-based industry was fed by the impressive American investment in higher education, including the extensive network of the 1862 Morrill Act land grant colleges. The undergraduate population grew from 52,300 in 1870 to 237,000 in 1900, and the number of graduate students jumped from fewer than fifty to

Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

It’s not hard to appreciate the bureau’s plight. Everybody wanted standards—it’s not as if manufacturers took pride in making incompatible hoses. It’s just that each firm desperately wanted its way of doing things to be the standard way, and for good reason. Losing a standards war meant having to retool, which might require purchasing expensive new

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Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan

Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

How the World Works

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program

Sriram Krishnan • Du Pont Bomb memo

Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire