Word: jonsson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grading system for it. In minute amounts, it will enable electronics men to make transistors with nearly twice the heat resistance (up to 300° F.) of previous transistors, and open up vast new possibilities for the guidance systems in supersonic planes and pilotless missiles. Says President John Erik Jonsson: "This is the purest product ever made...
...silicon was just one more example of Texins' rare skill in marrying scientific brains to production brawn. Scientists make up 20% of the company's 4,200 employees. Yet Jonsson, whose rule is "Never hire anybody you don't expect to keep the rest of his working life," makes sure that his people are able to translate their research into production-line products. The research men work out problems in the lab, follow them through the production line until all bugs are ironed out. Periodically, production men, many of whom are engineers, are sent back to research...