Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electronics, currently the fastest-growing major U.S. industry ($11.5 billion this year), whose brainy young scientist-businessmen sit in air-conditioned offices sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas. One of the fruits of their doodles-a new family of miniaturized electronic components to do much of the work of standard vacuum tubes-so fascinated Business Researcher Claudine Tillier and Picture Researcher Christina Pappas, who worked on this week's cover story, that they turned two tiny diodes into a pair of unusual earrings (see cut). For what the electronics men themselves do with their new diodes, and where they...
...them seriously. Spurred by the success of the armed services with audiovisual education during World War II, the company sent out 40 experts to proselytize in schools. The experts taught pupils how to run projectors, talked thousands of teachers into experimenting with films. The E.B.F. staff went through 109 standard elementary textbooks, this year drew up detailed guides on how some of its films could be tied in with appropriate chapters. The whole idea, says E.B.F.'s President Maurice Mitchell, was to get the teacher to use "the right film at the right time. Nothing can replace the teacher...
Aircraft Co.; a few months later Wooldridge left Bell to join the fun. In short order, Ramo and Wooldridge developed an electronic fire-control system for the U.S. Air Force which was so good that it became standard equipment on every first-line interceptor. Another spectacular coup was the air-to-air Falcon guided missile to track and destroy enemy planes. When the Korean war sent orders surging through the industry, Hughes was transformed into an electronics giant with sales of $200 million annually...
...Libya, is surveying a similar job in Thailand, dickering for contracts in Iran and the French Cameroons. The company has a crystal lattice filter for radios that will handle much higher frequencies at one-thousandth the cost of previous crystal lattice filters, has also developed an electronic time standard that varies but one second in 30 years. With first-year sales of $3,000,000, it expects to top $10 million...
Making its first big drive into the U.S.market, Italy's Fiat showed off a line of seven cars in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week. The star: Fiat's tiny bug-shaped Model 600 Standard, which is priced in the U.S. at $1,298. Fiat's other models range from a two-seater 90-m.p.h. sports convertible (U.S. price: $2,498) to a six-seater combination truck-station-wagon ($2,069). The company's U.S. sales goal is 30,000 in 1957 v. about 125 that trickled in last year. Fiat's Manhattan...