Word: ramos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manufacturers of sophisticated hardware ranging from ball bearings for Viet Nam to microcircuits for the moon, executives of TRW Inc. (formerly Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) are about as thoroughly caught up in the modern world as businessmen...
...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 cities can cope more effectively with their growing pains...
...MAKER. Bunker-Ramo Corp. has delivered to the Army two computers that perform the most tedious and time-consuming steps in map making. By scanning pairs of serial photos, the computers can measure heights, prepare charts showing altitude contours, automatically correct for parallax displacements and other distortions. e DRESS FIT. IBM has introduced a com puter system that can, from one original design, cut clothes patterns in different sizes. A moving mechanical arm traces the outline of the master design, then adjusts it for all sizes...
...long, thoughtful look into the computerized future, Simon Ramo, vice chairman of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., which is paid to think such thoughts, recently offered a vision of shopping as it may be in the next few decades. "Financial and accounting operations will be revolutionized by electronic information networks. Personal checks, and even currency and coin, will be delegated to a few rural areas or museums. When you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb print in front of the little machine will identify you, subtract from your account and put it into the seller's account...
Sharing this market are 2,000 U.S. school-supply firms. They include not only the oldtime school-supply special ists such as Rand McNally (maps) and Milton Bradley (art materials), but such prestigious newcomers as Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (language laboratories) and IBM (class scheduling). Their market is enormous: 41,500,000 elementary and secondary students, each of whom this year will need about $16 worth of pencils, papers, erasers and teaching materials...