Word: eindhoven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Nazi Panzer divisions overran The Netherlands in World War II, one of the places they headed for first was the great Philips company electric works at Eindhoven. But hours before their arrival, 25 top Philips scientists and executives slipped away via British destroyers, carrying with them vital secrets that contributed to radar and other wartime developments. Left behind, loyal Philipsmen cheerfully sabotaged what production the R.A.F. did not pulverize. Last week Philips President Frans Otten gave the latest progress report on Philips' amazing comeback. In the first nine months this year, sales of Philips' worldwide empire reached...
...brothers Philips steadily pushed into new lines, made X-ray tubes for Dutch physicians. Seeing radio coming, they were turning out receiver and even transmitter tubes by 1919. After Gerard retired in 1922, Anton aggressively expanded, set up Philips plants in most countries of the world. Today from Eindhoven, one of Europe's biggest company towns (pop. 160,000), Anton's son-in-law. President Frans Otten, and Anton's son. Vice President Frits Philips, direct an industrial empire that has 66,000 employees in Holland, 114,000 in the rest of the world. It thus rates...
H.B.G. Casimir, physicist and director of Phillips Research Laboratories at Eindhoven, Netherlands, is scheduled to deliver the first lecture of the series, "Science in Industry," Thursday, Nov. 12, at Adams House. Casimir will also preside over a Physics Colloquium Monday...
...through the German lines into Rome and discussed surrender terms with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. General Taylor was the first U.S. general to go into Normandy. As commander of the 101st Airborne Division, he jumped in the night before Dday. Later he was wounded, after" the 101st jumped near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. During the Battle of the Bulge his division was rushed up to reinforce the sagging lines and was trapped at Bastogne. At the time, Taylor was back in Washington on a special mission. He left his family on Christmas Eve, flew the Atlantic and jeeped into Bastogne...
...Anton Frederik Philips, 77, co-builder with his brother Gerard of Europe's vast Philips electrical products corporation, one of the world's biggest, which makes everything from light bulbs to cinema equipment, employs 80,000 workers in plants in 45 countries; of a heart ailment; in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, which the Philips brothers transformed from a village to an industrial city...