Word: equiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With rural areas pretty well covered, CATV companies are now turning to the cities. To overcome skyscraper ghost effects and provide the strong reception that good color TV requires, TelePrompTer has filed an application for a franchise to equip any of 625,000 Manhattan households with cable reception. If the idea succeeds in New York, it may spread to other cities. Indeed, cable TV companies optimistically foresee a system in which television will no longer depend on broadcast alone, but will be sent over a microwave-wire combination everywhere...
...five years since his father's death, Bob, now 41, has made Motorola a decentralized giant. Its projected $400 million in sales this year covers such a broad range of products and aptitudes that Motorola last week 1) won a contract to equip an eigtlt-mile stretch of New York's crime-beleaguered subway system with an ex perimental two-way radio hookup for policemen, and 2) announced a new line of electronic circuits that will sell for as much as 77% less than present manufactured units...
Martin H. Peretz, teaching fellow in Government, said last night that he and John F. Maher '60 have collected an, additional $4000. The money will be used to equip the cars used by COFO workers with radio telephones...
German nationalization began with Bismarck, continued through the Weimar Republic and reached its climax in the Third Reich, which organized such huge enterprises as Volkswagen and the Salzgitter steelmaking complex to equip the army. Not a single firm has been nationalized since the war under the Christian Democrats. But still left over from the old days is a $2.5 billion government stake in companies that account for 40% of West Germany's iron ore production, 70% of aluminum, 60% of electricity and 80% of soft coal. In 1959 the government finally sold off to 216,000 German buyers...
...Transport Service planes hauled 15,278 soldiers to bases in Germany. Normally it would take six weeks to transport a full division overseas, even longer to get it into combat. Big Lift was designed to move a full armored division from the U.S. to Europe in 72 hours, equip it with heavy hardware "prepositioned" at depots near the front lines, and throw it into "combat" two or three days after arrival. Said General Paul Adams, boss of the U.S. Strike Command, to departing members of the 2nd Armored: "The eyes of the world, not only of Texas, are upon...