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...Tube. Hope of the industry for 1958 is the new wide-angle picture tube pioneered by Sylvania. By widening the projection angle from 90° to 110°, the new tube cuts 4 to 6 in. off cabinet depth, up to 50% off bulk. Herbert Riegelman, G.E. TV general manager, calls the new "slim line" the "industry's first opportunity for planned obsolescence," hopes that the new flatter sets will bring TV back into the living room as the old bulkier set is relegated to the playroom...
...when black-and-white prices slid as low as $100 on some new portables, color lost out. With black-and-white prices going up, closing the price gap on color, Vice President Robert Seidel said RCA color sales this year were running two to one over 1956. Sylvania's President Don Mitchell estimated that 1957 color sales by the entire industry will run from...
...flattest notes came from the TV industry, which has been battling tougher competition and slower consumer sales. Admiral Corp.'s first-quarter sales dipped 13% to $42.4 million, while profits declined 67% to $427,744. Philco Corp. and Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. managed to increase their sales slightly, but saw profits drop, Philco's by 27% to $1,107,000 for 1957's first quarter, Sylvania...
...brains of the giant warbirds are fantastically complex electronic-guidance systems. That the job of" supervising this project, on which the survival of the U.S. depends, was not given to one of the familiar electronic giants-American Telephone & Telegraph, Radio Corp. of America, International Business Machines, General Electric, Sylvania, Westinghouse-but to Los Angeles' Ramo-Wooldridge is a perfect example of the way in which brilliant, little-known scientists are shooting up from obscurity to fame and sizable fortunes in the new age of electronics. The only atypical thing about Ramo-Wooldridge and its founders, Dean Wooldridge...
...range units for near-instant cooking, hopes to get the price to consumers down to $500 (from $1,200) soon. Westinghouse, which already has computer-controlled electronic elevators in operation, will soon market an electronic air purifier that removes 90% of all bacteria and pollen from room air. And Sylvania, one of the fastest-moving companies of all, is perfecting the electronic "light sandwiches" for the home of tomorrow. Two new advances: Bendix last week unveiled an automated machine tool with an electronic brain that "reads" coded information on punched tape, automatically guides a 50-ton milling machine turning...