Word: rand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered Columbia Law School, but decided after five months that the law was not for him. Before coming to TIME, he wrote reports for the Rand Corp. and Republic Aviation, read unsolicited fiction for The New Yorker...
...August 1953, Transitron got its first big order: $40,000 worth of diodes from Remington Rand's Univac division. Sales and profits have soared steadily ever since. Last year Transitron had sales of $30,913,376 and earnings of $6,456,138 after taxes, a 21% return on sales and the highest among leaders in the industry...
Though the South African government shrugged off the U.N. action as one more example of a nation the world misunderstood, the English-language Rand Daily Mail gloomily noted that "on each occasion the number of countries supporting the resolution gradually increases," and wondered how long the government "can go on implementing a racial policy that is arousing more and more opposition throughout the civilized world...
Since 1950, Machines Bull has had a contract to sell in the U.S. under the trade name of Remington Rand. But sales never amounted to more than $3,000,000 a year. The company believes it can readily market $40 million worth of its computers and other equipment under its own name if a big sales push is made. Last week Callies and Vieillard dickered with Remington Rand, whose contract is expiring, and other U.S. companies for a deal to make an all-out push...
...means rich, polite Bachelor Richard Kao, 30, is a sort of industrial scholar. He has a Ph.D. in economics (University of Illinois) and another under way in mathematics at U.C.L.A. An alumnus of Santa Monica's famed nonprofit Rand Corp., he now works for a similar "think palace," the Planning Research Corp. in Los Angeles. To a man of Kao's training, Newsboy Abdel's quick mind was obvious. "His goal is good," mused Kao. "He wants to be an educated...