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...TRANSISTOR PRICE CUTS of 5% to 60% are coming from Philco. Company says its new automated production line is three times faster, making radio transistors competitive with vacuum tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...aware of electronics' rapid growth, pays as much as 40 and 50 times earnings for what it calls "Buck Rogers stocks." Eager buyers this year boosted Texas Instruments from 26¾ to 86, Raytheon from 22 to 62⅝, Fairchild Camera from 18⅞ to 64¾, General Transistor from 17 to 51. But to many Wall Streeters, even such high prices seem cheap when sales and earnings are zooming. Explains one broker: "Current earnings are already past history. If you want to participate in growth, you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Transistor Transition | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...fast is the field growing that a new development or refinement is announced almost weekly. Last week Texas Instruments began manufacturing a germanium "mesa" transistor; this week General Electric starts full production of a controlled rectifier that can handle a greater power load than a transistor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Transistor Transition | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Business Machines. Among the new office gadgets displayed in Manhattan's Coliseum: Philco's Transac 52000, the first commercial all-transistor computer (rental fee: $28,000 to $40,000); Thomas Collators Inc.'s completely automatic rotary drum collating machine, which sorts and staples, detects misses or doubles, piles and packs up to 25,000 sheets of paper an hour (price: $9,000); Perk-ette's coffee machine, which spurts a fresh brew at pre-set intervals, thus always has coffee fresh at coffee-break time (installed free on $5-a-day guarantee); Coffee Vending Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: Cooking | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...good offices, came as no surprise to the freewheeling middlemen of Gwadar. In anticipation that Pakistan's customs restrictions would soon surround them, the smugglers had changed their occupation to just plain importers, stuffed their mud-walled warehouses and piled the beachfronts with great dumps of cosmetics, transistor radios, automobile parts, nylons and U.S. cigarettes. The Pakistanis, too pleased at plugging the hole to begrudge Gwadar its last killing, ran up their green and white flag and announced that they hope to develop the place as a navy and air base, eventually to deepen its shallow port until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GWADAR: The Sons of Sindbad | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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