Word: inces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic countermeasures have become so vital that many bombers will carry nothing but electronic equipment. Sylvania Electric Products Inc., for instance, is developing a special counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...
...being transformed from a senior citizens' haven to a humming technical center. Since 1956, General Electric's X-Ray division has established a $7,000,000 plant, and Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has opened a $4,500,000 missile-parts plant. Sperry Rand and Electronic Communications, Inc. (aeronautical instruments) have also recently finished multimillion-dollar plants...
...DEBUT will be made by National Theatres, second biggest U.S. movie-house chain (after American Broadcasting -Paramount Theatres, Inc.), whose 320 houses are being hurt by video competition. For $7,600,000 it will buy Kansas City Star's WDAF-TV and WDAF-AM, which U.S. trustbusters forced the Star to sell on grounds that it was monopolizing city's news...
MILLIONAIRE BILL GRAHAM, the Kansas crusader for free enterprise around the world (TIME, Aug. 12), has recruited 15 U.S. shareholders -including the Rockefeller brothers' International Basic Economy Corp.-to buy into his Private Enterprises Inc., which will make investments in private enterprises in India. New company is capitalized at $1,500,000; Indian sources are expected to match the company's investments...
...with a truck-mounted satellite launcher ($4.98) and a skysweeper ($7.98) that throws a plane's image onto a wall, then fires suction-cup projectiles at it. Gilbert's train sets have a rocket launcher car ($10.29) that shoots a missile from the tracks, and Kusan-Auburn Inc.'s six-car atomic train ($39.95) automatically unleashes two missiles while the train is in motion...