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...most U.S. businessmen, a blackboard is something they once scribbled on, long, long ago in school. But for one U.S. industry, the old blackboard is as necessary as slide rules and secretaries. The industry is electronics, currently the fastest-growing major U.S. industry ($11.5 billion this year), whose brainy young scientist-businessmen sit in air-conditioned offices sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas. One of the fruits of their doodles-a new family of miniaturized electronic components to do much of the work of standard vacuum tubes-so fascinated Business Researcher Claudine Tillier and Picture Researcher Christina Pappas, who worked...
...call to arms. "COMBAT THE MENACE!" it read. "GET YOUR LUDWIG BUTTON.'' The menace: none other than Rock 'n' Roller Elvis Presley. The Ludwig: a composer with the last name of Beethoven. Last week Ludwig van Beethoven was the center of one of the fastest-growing fan clubs in the nation...
...most Americans, what makes an electronics device work is almost as baffling as the secret of life itself. Yet so great are its accomplishments that electronics * is the fastest growing major U.S. industry. From a gross of only $2 billion in 1946 it has become the fifth biggest U.S. industry, with 4,200 companies, a work force of 1,500,000, and sales of $11.5 billion annually. In the next decade the electronics industry will double again to at least $22 billion, and beyond that the horizons are limitless...
...Route 128 near Boston to "electronics highway" Massachusetts alone has some 500 electronics plants. And in Los Angeles, where a new electronics plant is built every fortnight, there are already 470 companies, which poured out products at the rate of $1 billion last year. Of them all, probably the fastest growing is Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., which is a bare three years, seven months old. When it was started in 1953, Ramo-Wooldridge had nothing except the brains of its brilliant founders. President Dean E. Wooldridge and Executive Vice President Simon Ramo. The company now has the vital task of running...
...instant cooking, hopes to get the price to consumers down to $500 (from $1,200) soon. Westinghouse, which already has computer-controlled electronic elevators in operation, will soon market an electronic air purifier that removes 90% of all bacteria and pollen from room air. And Sylvania, one of the fastest-moving companies of all, is perfecting the electronic "light sandwiches" for the home of tomorrow. Two new advances: Bendix last week unveiled an automated machine tool with an electronic brain that "reads" coded information on punched tape, automatically guides a 50-ton milling machine turning out precision aircraft and missile...