ROCKET T h e articles on rocket and missile propellants in this section are from the Spring Meeting of the Commercial Chemical Development Association May 13-14, at French Lick, Ind. The Assistant Secretary of Defense cooperated in the planning of the meeting, for which certain information was specifically declassified. The purpose of the meeting, which has received considerable comment in the trade, was to build up sufficient background in the field to enable the members to interpret more intelligently the sign, if not the magnitude, of changing chemical requirements as various pieces of information on the program arc declassified and appear in the lay and trade press. John J. O’Connell, program chairman for the meeting, said is was felt that the propellant phase of the missile and rocket program would have the most significant effects on the chemical industry and that this phase should receive the major attention of the group. Last year, the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, XCS, sponsored a symposium on the fundamental chemistry of rocketry. These articles, which explained the physical, chemical, and mathematical bases on which operation of rocket propellants depend, were published in the April 1956, IKDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY. DR. SYDNEY STEELE Industrial i\ssistant to the Senior Vice President Atlas Powder Co. CCDA Public Relations Committec
