Word: sylvanias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compact Eye. The extremely sensitive radar that can distinguish closely adjacent targets, e.g., boats in an amphibious landing is now cumbersome and complex. Last week Sylvania Electric Products Inc disclosed a new cathode-ray tube that will cut the size of present radar receiving units by about four-fifths. Developed with the Navy, the "wamoscope" (a derivative of wave-modulated oscilloscope) uses a single tube to detect, amplify and display target blips, eliminating a dozen tubes and components, including such standard terns as detectors and amplifiers. All three armed forces are excited about the wammy. Said Dr. Robert Guthrie, Navy...
Record sales pushed up giant General Electric Co. to a net of $113 million (v. $108 million last year) on sales just below $2 billion. Sylvania's sales high of $155 million produced earnings of $3,000,000 Wrapping up other records in the packaging boom, St. Regis Paper Co. earned $12.3 million v. $8.7 million in the first half of 1955. Continental Can Co. had a half-year record net of $14.5 million, up from $10.3 million last year. High retail sales were reflected in store profits. In its first 24 weeks of the year, Safeway Stores...
Brighter Lamp. A fluorescent lamp that provides 2½ times as much light as models now in use will be put on sale by Sylvania Electric Products Inc. The VHO (Very High Output) lamp comes in 100-watt, 4-ft., and 200-watt, 8-ft. models...
...mentioned certain companies as having begun programs in the past years, "such as Gillette, Standard Oil of Indiana, General Foods, General Mills, Union Carbon and Carbide and Sylvania, to mention only...
They are well-lighted, pastel-tinted and smog-free (there is no heavy industry), and their signs cry out familiar brand names: Remington Rand, Sylvania, Paper-Mate, U.S. Rubber, Textron, Maidenform, A.S. Beck, Carborundum, Van Raalte, Bostitch, Sunbeam...