Word: ferranti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, while both the ministry and the company bore their share of criticism, Britain's defense industry contracts seemed to be the main target of the debate. Critics in the press and Parliament alike were quick to remember that the same thing happened only three years ago, when Ferranti, Ltd., repaid $12 million after acknowledging an 82% profit manufacturing Bloodhound missiles. Since then, there has been no significant change in the basis for contracting. The government still has no legal redress for excess profits...
...help close the technology gap, but they are not sure how. In response to the clamor abroad, President Johnson recently appointed a committee headed by his science adviser, former Princeton Chemistry Professor Donald Hornig, to consider what the U.S. might do. That, fumes Basil de Ferranti, managing director of Britain's I.C.T., was merely "a clever public relations gimmick." Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani proposed a ten-year "Technological Marshall Plan," but he has not yet spelled it out. Short of U.S. companies giving away their trade secrets, it is hard to see how the U.S. could provide much...
...speak for any other areas, but I know of no shops in the Square who are going up," said Charles F. Ferranti, owner of the Harvard Barber Shop...
...Anthony Ferranti of Ferranti-Dege photography store has declared absolutely that he is not Santa Claus. He is against Christmas and always has been. (See right...
...Ferranti concluded: "I see no need for a passport photo agency at Harvard. For 40 cents you can go to a place in Scollay Square that will do the job--six photographs for two dollars. This is a lot cheaper than any amateur could possibly do it with any kind of a lab around here...