Word: litton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most beef cattle are doomed to the butcher's block. Not Sam 951. A 2,500-lb. Charolais breeding bull, Sam lives in a red-carpeted, maple-paneled building, breathes humidity-controlled air. By pampering him, Owners Charley Litton, 56, and Son Jerry, 29, of Chillicothe, Mo., hope to keep the eight-year-old animal going at assembly-line efficiency for at least seven more years. Like other prize breeding bulls, Sam is big business; this year alone, he is expected to sire more than 8,000 calves by artificial insemination...
...doing his part in that population explosion, Sam 951 has been a big moneymaker. The Littons bought Sam as a two-month-old calf for $10,000, soon found that he was perfectly suited for breeding: Sam has the size, color and easy disposition of the best Charolais, has proved unusually effective in passing along those traits to his progeny. A small vial of his semen, enough to impregnate one cow, sells for $10. The Littons sell the semen abroad as well as in the U.S., take in $80,000 a year on such transactions. Looking back on his original...
...principally a rocket-engine maker, has contracted to build two automated post offices, and has begun planning new methods of solid waste disposal for Fresno (Calif.) County. Lockheed, though still the top Pentagon contractor, with $1.5 billion worth of 1966 plane and missile orders, is battling General Dynamics and Litton Industries for a Navy ship contract?to the dismay of the nation's proudly inefficient conventional shipbuilders. Cleveland's TRW (nee Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) is designing a hospital operations system for Edmonton, Canada, studying ways to improve highspeed ground transportation for the Federal Government, devising a system by which California...
...University Press, and RCA, parent of CBS's great rival, NBC, has taken over Random House, is also diversifying in other ways (see following story). Time Inc. and General Electric have gone into a fifty-fifty partnership in a new firm called General Learning Corp. Beverly Hills-based Litton Industries plans to buy the American Book...
...COMMUTER'S AID. Illinois Central Railroad is testing a Litton computer that handles commuter ticketing. After a clerk punches in the passenger's monthly schedule, the machine calculates the price and issues a magnetic card. On each trip, the commuter slips the card into a turnstile receiver that automatically subtracts one ride from the total and flashes the number of rides remaining, then opens the gate. In a few years, clerks will be eliminated; the commuter will punch his own order on a console and pay the machine...