Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For its deadly Falcon air-to-air guided missile, Hughes Aircraft Co. has squeezed a guidance system equal to five TV sets into a space 6 in. by 10 in. World War II's 200-lb. automatic pilot is obsolete; a new model weighs only 75 Ibs. and performs...
East Germany's breakneck industrialization has brought other bureaucratic bumblings. This is notably true in the infant shipbuilding industry, which operated in the red until 1955 because parts often were promised for delivery after the planned completion of the ship, and supplying industries were built up far from ports...
The holder of the oldest name in automatic washers tossed in the towel last week. Bendix Home Appliances, which brought out the world's first automatic washer in 1937, will be sold, pending approval of final terms, by Avco Manufacturing Corp. to Philco Corp. Avco also said it will...
Sins of Bigness. This trend to bigness is criticized by some of the bigwigs. One of the strongest voices is that of Judson Sayre, who as Bendix president in 1941-55, probably did more than any other man to promote the automatic washer; he now heads Borg-Warner's...
Home Is the Sailor. In Ensenada, Mexico, three crewmen of the American fishing boat Sportsman were taken into custody by the Mexican coast guard after Captain E. W. Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out...