Word: makers
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...stake. Their first sale of any consequence was to Walt Disney, who bought nine audio oscillators to help create the sound effect for Fantasia. With Hewlett as the original engineering brains and Packard as a fiercely dynamic manager, the company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare U.S. TV repair shop that does not use Hewlett-Packard equipment to detect picture-tube defects...
Miss Marie Liljedahl who plays Inga is young and beautiful, if somewhat full of face, and acts with less self-consciousness than her director had any right to expect. Being somewhat of an amateur film-maker in my spare time, I spent much of the film figuring out better ways to use Miss Liljedahl; but these I expect were no different from ways anyone who wasn't an amateur film-maker would want to use Miss Liljedahl in his spare time...
...getting the sort of play that once was accorded to aerospace and the Pill. The stock of Pinkerton's, Inc. (see BOOKS), the 118-year-old outfit that went public in 1967 at $23 a share, is now trading at $51. Federal Sign and Signal, a Chicago maker of police sirens, has gone from $19 to $42 in the past year. American Safety Equipment Corp., whose sales of $26.75 police helmets more than tripled in 1968, has jumped from $10 to $16. Other companies in the police market have seen their stocks rise...
...from Billy Clubs. Though the industry remains balkanized, takeovers and acquisitions are increasing. The biggest and broadest-gauged company in the field is Bangor Punta Corp., a Manhattan-based conglomerate that has acquired five suppliers of law-enforcement equipment over the past three years. Among them is the maker of Chemical Mace, the liquid-tear-gas spray. Sales of law-enforcement equipment now account for about 9% of the Bangor Punta's $259 million annual sales and 30% of its $22 million pre-tax profits. The company broke into the market in 1965 by acquiring Smith & Wesson, whose revolvers...
...Brownlow's material finally convinces us that changes were basically detrimental, at least those resulting from production supervision and over-industrialization. A superb chapter on Producers shows how surprised the autonomous directors were when corporate heads unleashed these "supervisors" on them. Maurice Tourneur, an early film-maker of indescribable importance, refused initially to allow his first Producer on the set. The studio finally explained to him that Producers were a permanent fixture and Tourneur returned immediately to France, never to make another film...