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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guppy"; its 22½-ton capacity can accommodate huge computers, oil-well rigs and helicopters. Another major growth area is space-age sealants: G.E. is selling sealants, developed for the seams of spacecraft, for use in caulking bathroom tiles; General Motors is sealing windshields and rear windows with a product made by Thiokol from solid rocket fuel...
Perhaps the most important single product of space research is mundane: paint. Researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland concocted an alkali silicate paint that toughly resists weather, solvents and radiation-and NASA has licensed three U.S. paint companies to guide its commercial...
...Earlier this year, Land disclosed that Polaroid had passed a significant milestone: sales of film exceeded sales of cameras for the first time, will account for 55% of the company's volume in 1965. Polaroid has thus changed from a company selling mostly a high-priced, seldom-bought product to one marketing a low-priced, often replaced product, somewhat like toothpaste or razor blades...
...housewives now scout all food prices, use their cars and convenient parking facilities to move from store to store for selected items. Many housewives who formerly shopped only at one supermarket now divide their weekly grocery budgets among several. Like the earlier competitive advantages of newer stores, broader product variety or better parking, trading stamps have ceased to be a decisive lure. This fact, along with the advent of discount supermarkets in many parts of the U.S., has begun to cause grocers to fight their competitive battles again on the old ground of lower prices...
Best Treated. The report on Aerospace's activities, a product of eleven months' work, touches very little on technological activities. Secretary Zuckert credits Aerospace with guiding the development of the Titan III and Minuteman II missiles; Air Force Systems Commander General Bernard A. Schriever says that its engineers saved $100 million by improving the reliability of Atlas and Thor boosters. Aerospace has grown to be the 45th largest defense contractor, in the course of working on $309 million in military contracts has collected $15.9 million in fees. What seemed to bother the investigators was how the taxpayers...