Word: rand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many U.S. officials and some scientists expressed public astonishment at Russia's rapid progress in atomic weaponry. The astonishment was based on the general belief that Russia started work on nuclear weapons only after World War II. This is not true, says a recently declassified report by the Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, an outfit which does super-secret long-range research for the Air Force. The Russians started atomic work at about the same time as the U.S., and they were at work during most...
...center (1.387,000 sq. ft. of retail selling space), an office center (50 acres) and an industrial center (123 acres). More than 1,000,000 sq. ft. of industrial space has already been built and is being used by such firms as American Bosch Arma, Pepsi-Cola Bottling, Sperry Rand Marine Division, Graybar Electric...
Fashion Tabulator. Remington Rand has developed an electronic ordering and tabulating system for Jonathan Logan, Inc., women's apparel manufacturer, says it will slash as much as two weeks from the order-production-delivery cycle. In the showroom, buyers' orders are recorded on punch cards, transcribed to manufacturing tickets, speeded to cutting rooms. The electronic system spots buying trends, permits producers to concentrate on their best-sellers and to drop the slow-moving also-rans...
...total 400 executives in 132 companies covered by the survey, almost 65% made at least $100,000 in 1955. Notable exception: Remington Rand's Board Chairman Douglas MacArthur (see PEOPLE), whose 1955 salary came...
...last contribution to this Advocate is Ann Rand's review of Henry Miller's The Time of the Assassins. While no one will dispute her assertion that Miller's work "is not literary criticism as we usually understand it," she scarcely goes beyond it. Like most of the contributors to the issue, she seems, to lack, if not the capacity, the desire to say something. Since they do make the effort, the stories by Medeiros, Wolfert, and Miss Dawson are particularly welcome...