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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...
...Close In. TRW as it now exists was put together in 1958, but its parent company, Thompson Products, a leading auto-parts maker, dates back to 1901. In 1953, a pair of brilliant, Caltech-educated scientists, Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge, left Hughes Aircraft Co. and, with the Thompson firm's financial backing, founded their own company. Winning a contract for the systems engineering and technical direction of the Air Force's intercontinental ballistics missile program, Ramo-Wooldridge (TIME cover, April 29, 1957) quickly became one of the U.S.'s most respected "think factories." Its eventual merger...
...diversified as it has become, TRW refuses to consider itself a conglomerate for the simple reason that its product lines are so compatible. With main facilities still divided between Cleveland (Thompson) and Los Angeles (Ramo-Wooldridge), the company manufactures automobile parts (pistons, valves, fuel pumps) and aircraft components (turbine wheels, hydraulic pumps) in the East, turns out most of its aerospace and electronic gear in the West. The tidy mix brings TRW 56% of its sales from commercial and industrial customers, 44% from Government contracts...
...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...