Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUSSIA. Replacing Manila-bound Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen: Llewellyn E. Thompson, 52, Ambassador and High Commissioner to Austria since 1952. For longtime (26 years) Career Diplomat "Tommy" Thompson (who, like Bohlen, worked for Ike as Russian interpreter at the 1955 Geneva summit talks) the shift will be a second Moscow assignment; he was second secretary and consul of the Moscow embassy 1940-44, won a Medal of Freedom for staying on "at the risk of capture" by the invading Nazis after the rest of the diplomatic corps was evacuated to Kuibyshev. Last year Colorado-born Ambassador Thompson won a citation...
Clearly, the effects of the proposed amendment would be so beneficial to America that we do not hesitate to give it our unqualified support. The Harvard Conservative League William A. Stearns '59, Pres. Frank R. Rossiter '59, V-Pres. Kenneth E. Thompson '57, Pres. Emeritus
...Black. They rented their first office and sat down to draw up a list of possible financial backers. The first name was Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc., which already had its foot in the electronics door with a parts subcontract for Hughes's Falcon missile. As soon as Thompson heard from Ramo and Wooldridge. it told them to look no farther-just hurry to Cleveland to work out the financing details. Though Howard Hughes offered to help finance their new venture, it was too late...
...exchange for 3,500 shares of preferred stock (87½%) and 24,500 shares (49%) of Ramo-Wooldridge's common stock, the remainder of which the two scientists kept for themselves and future staffers, Thompson put an initial $400,000 into the baby corporation. Within a week R-W got its first Air Force study contract for a secret project, quickly picked up more such contracts. Three months later R-W was in the black...
...stay in business without production." To get the necessary production, R-W is diversifying with six divisions (and two laboratories), whose job is to conceive and produce everything from miniaturized components to pieces of equipment and entire electronics systems. A subsidiary, Pacific Semiconductors, 50% owned by Thompson Products, is in mass production of transistors and diodes for the component market. R-W's equipment divisions are producing airborne digital computers and ground instruments for testing missiles; its systems divisions are busy developing a line of data-handling systems for the military, the guidance control system...