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General Dynamics' widespread diversification eases the task of finding uses for its scientists' new ideas. When Convair evolved the idea for the Charactron tube, which can read 1,200,000 characters a minute. Stromberg-Carlson got the job of producing and distributing it. and Electric Boat set to work adapting it into a "synthetic porthole" to give a commander all the complex information picked up by a submarine's scouting equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Builder of the Atlas | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

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