Editing General Dynamics (section)

===General Dynamics emerges===
Aircraft production became increasingly important at Canadair, and Hopkins argued that the name "Electric Boat" was no longer appropriate—so Electric Boat was reorganized as General Dynamics on 21 February 1952.<ref name="centennial_GD">{{cite web |url=http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm |title=General Dynamics Corporation |publisher=U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission |access-date=2008-12-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112045623/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/generaldynamics/Aero35.htm |archive-date=2008-11-12 }}</ref>

General Dynamics purchased [[Convair]] from the Atlas Group in March 1953.<ref name="centennial_GD" /> The sale was approved by government oversight with the provision that GD would continue to operate out of [[Air Force Plant 4]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. This factory had been set up in order to spread out strategic aircraft production and rented to Convair during the war to produce [[B-24 Liberator]] bombers.

Convair worked as an independent division inside General Dynamics and, over the next decade, developed the [[F-106 Delta Dart]] [[interceptor aircraft|interceptor]], the [[B-58 Hustler]] [[bomber]], and the [[Convair 880]] and [[Convair 990|990]] [[airliner]]s. Convair also developed the [[Atlas missile]], the US's first operational [[intercontinental ballistic missile]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Johnsen |first=Frederick A. |title=Captured Eagles: Secrets of the Luftwaffe |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-78200-973-3 |location=Oxford, UK |pages=146 |language=en}}</ref>

General Dynamics purchased Liquid Carbonic Corporation in September 1957 and controlled it as a wholly owned subsidiary until a Federal antitrust ruling required its sale to shareholders in January 1969, being bought later that month by Houston Natural Gas Company.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/258/36/1510699/ |title=United States v. General Dynamics Corporation, 258 F. Supp. 36 (S.D.N.Y. 1966)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/28/archives/market-place-hitormiss-notification.html |title=Market Place| newspaper=The New York Times| date=1975-03-28| last1=Metz| first1=Robert}}</ref>

From 1955 to 1960, General Dynamics hired [[Erik Nitsche]] as a graphic designer to develop designs for corporate reports and advertising material<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heller |first=Steven |date=1998-11-29 |title=Erik Nitsche, 90, Modernist Graphic Designer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/nyregion/erik-nitsche-90-modernist-graphic-designer.html |access-date=2024-07-26 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> including the "[[Atoms for Peace]]" series of posters for the 1955 [[International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy]] in Geneva, Switzerland. These designs have become iconic examples of the mid-century [[Modern art|modernist]] graphic design style.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-23 |title=Erik Nitsche's Modernist Vision |url=https://www.swanngalleries.com/news/vintage-posters/2018/02/erik-nitsche-modernist-vision/ |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=Swann Galleries News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Erik Nitsche |url=https://www.oneclub.org/adc-hall-of-fame/-bio/erik-nitsche |access-date=2024-07-26 |website=www.oneclub.org |language=en}}</ref>