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...spending $4,000,000 to double its capacity. Sylvania has developed a new color tube with a rare earth phosphor that makes it 40% brighter than others on the market. Last week Zenith introduced its new 25-inch rectangular color tube, which shows more of the transmitted picture, and Philco began pilot production of 21-inch color tubes...
Etching in Patterns. Yesterday's circuitry is being shoved aside by modern micromodules, tiny gadgets that electronic engineers believe will soon replace most of the tangled guts of familiar apparatus. Least radical of the miniature gadgets are the "thin-film circuits." In the Philco version they are glass or ceramic sheets a few hundredths of an inch thick, covered with foil-thin layers of tantalum, chromium and gold. On top of the gold is a photosensitive material that becomes insoluble when exposed to light. The diagram of a desired circuit is printed by strong light on the photosensitive surface...
...Washington, six big U.S. firms submitted proposals for four possible satellite designs for Comsat to choose from. The six: A.T. & T. and RCA acting jointly, I.T. & T. and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Hughes Aircraft, and Ford's Philco subsidiary. In Rome at a meeting with top Comsat officers, skeptical European officials were finally convinced that the company was moving ahead so rapidly that they should work along with it-or see the U.S. monopolize space communications. In about two months, Comsat will put $200 million worth of its stock on sale; with the capital it raises, it will start experiments...
...prime contractors, 75 major subcontractors and some 7,200 suppliers involved in Mercury. In a report appendix it listed prime contractors as Aerospace Corp., Chrysler Corp., General Dynamics/Astronautics, General Electric Co., Burroughs Corp., B. F. Goodrich Co., McDonnell Aircraft Corp., North American Aviation, Inc., Pan American World Airways, Inc., Philco Corp., Thiokol Chemical Corp. and Western Electric...
...tripled his total staff to 500, is converting his business from handwritten, single-entry ledgers to computers, has trained a corps of crack salesmen and sent his technicians off to Beirut, England and the U.S. for training. Handling dealerships for such companies as Chrysler, Kaiser Jeep, Gulf Oil, Philco, Whirlpool and National Cash Register, Bader has ridden on Kuwait's boom. Last year his sales included 1,000 cars, 4,000 air conditioners (the Kuwait temperature goes up to 125°), three jet planes, and $600,000 worth of N.C.R. equipment. He is building two apartment projects and starting...