Word: motorola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makers of microwave equipment, e.g., R.C.A., I.T. & T., Philco, Motorola, General Electric, Western Electric, did an estimated $150 million of industrial and military business last year and expect to do even better in 1952. But they think that they have barely scratched the surface. R.C.A. alone has orders for microwave systems from the Arkansas Fish & Game Commission (to catch poachers fast), the Atomic Energy Commission (for remote-control experiments) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (for quick reporting of accidents, traffic jams and other road conditions...
Home-Town Favorites. One reason is that the public is back in. In Chicago, a stockbroker told how his cabdriver asked him about Motorola and a hairdresser wanted advice on how to invest $5,000 in "sound stocks...
...sales were off as much as 80% from last year and still showed few signs of recovering. To perk them up, Crosley, Motorola and Sentinel last week cut prices from $20 to $80 on their 1952 models, and even RCA and Admiral, which had held out against price cuts in the past, planned to go along. Other metal users found sales just as slow: with the deadline already past for filing CMP applications for fourth-quarter metals, the government had got requests from less than half of the eligible producers; the rest apparently still had enough to carry them through...
...allied subjects (tuition for the course: $2,520) in an ornate, five-story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines (for its Mainliner interiors), Packard, the Chicago Tribune (for "being inspirational to students of design...
Many so honored have shown their appreciation by contributing to the Fashion Academy's scholarship fund. The Ford Motor Co., winner in 1949 and 1950, sent Hartman a check for $25,200 to pay for scholarships. Motorola, Elgin and other winners have also become donors to the scholarship fund...