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Santa Monica
Santa Monica , city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. The RAND Corp., the noted think-tank, has its headquarters there. Santa Monica has a 3-mi (... Read more
Peace Corps
Peace Corps agency of the U.S. government, whose purpose is to assist underdeveloped countries in meeting their needs for trained manpower. The Peace Corps was established in 1961 by executive order of President Kennedy; Congress approved it as a permanent agency within the Dept. of State the same ... Read more
James Rodney Schlesinger
James Rodney Schlesinger 1929-, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1973-75) and Secretary of Energy (1977-79), b. New York City. After graduating from Harvard (A.B., 1950; A.M., 1952; Ph.D., 1956), he taught economics (1955-63) at the Univ. of Virginia and was then (1963-69) a specialist in strategic studi... Read more
United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps military corps that forms a separate service within the U.S. Dept. of the Navy. The commandant of the Marine Corps is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . During conflicts, the Corps is charged with conducting all land operations essential to the successful prosecutio... Read more
Leslie Richard Groves
Leslie Richard Groves 1896-1970, American army officer and engineer who headed the program that developed America's atomic bomb , b. Albany, N.Y., grad. West Point (1918). He was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers and studied at the army engineering school (1918-20). Posted (1931) to Washingto... Read more
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg 1931-, American political activist, b. Chicago, grad. Columbia Univ. (B.S., 1952, Ph.D., 1959). After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he worked for the Rand Corporation (1959-64; 1967-70), conducting studies on defense policies. Originally a strong supporter of the Vietnam War , ... Read more
Janissaries
Janissaries [Turk.,=recruits], elite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into service; all the recruits were converted to Islam and trained under the strictest discipline. It was originally organized by Sultan Murad I. Th... Read more
Louis Burt Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer 1885-1957, American movie producer, b. Russia. Mayer began (1907) as the operator of a theater in Haverhill, Mass., gradually gaining control of all the theaters in the city. In 1924 he merged his Louis B. Mayer Corp. with Metro Pictures Corp., and eventually with Goldwyn Pictures ... Read more
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Edward Otho Cresap Ord 1818-83, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Cumberland, Md. He commanded a brigade in Virginia (1861-62), was promoted to major general of volunteers, and fought at Iuka and Corinth, Miss. (1862). In the last stage of the Vicksburg campaign (1863), Ord led the 13th C... Read more
WAC
WAC (Women's Army Corps), U.S. army organization created (1942) during World War II to enlist women as auxiliaries for noncombatant duty in the U.S. army. Before 1943 it was known as the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby . During World War II, WACs served... Read more

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Santa Monica
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. The RAND Corp., the noted think-tank, has its headquarters there. Santa Monica has a 3-mi (4.8-km) oceanfront beach that includes the... Read more
James Rodney Schlesinger
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...he taught economics (1955-63) at the Univ. of Virginia and was then (1963-69) a specialist in strategic studies for the RAND Corp. In 1969 he was appointed assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget by President Richard Nixon, under whom he later... Read more
Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...at Harvard (1968-79). A member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1962), he has been a consultant for the RAND Corp. since 1948. A specialist in welfare economics and general equilibrium theory, he shared the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize... Read more
SIC 3429 Hardware, Not Elsewhere Classified
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...nut crackers, and piano hardware. Industry leader Ingersoll-Rand Co., (2003 sales of almost $9.9 billion) bought the door hardware...Fortune Brands Inc. of Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Ingersoll-Rand reincorporated in 2002, moving its official headquarters from...an effort to reduce its taxes. Sandwiched between ... Read more
John Atanasoff
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his own, Ordnance Engineering Corp., in Frederick, Maryland. Four...was sold to Aerojet General Corp. Atanasoff became the firm's...his son oversaw. Won Sperry Rand-Honeywell Suit Atanasoff became...when a suit was filed by Sperry Rand, which held a patent for the...patent by not paying Sperry ... Read more
Leslie Richard Groves
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1945, Groves retired from the army in 1948. Subsequently, he was vice president in charge of research at the Remington Rand Corp. until his retirement in 1961. Bibliography: See his Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (1962); biographies... Read more

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UNIVAC
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing ...From 1951 through the mid-1950s over 40 machines were produced. The company was acquired by Remington–Rand Inc., which merged with Sperry Corporation in 1955 to form Sperry Rand Corp. Sperry later merged with Burroughs Corp. to form Unisys . Read more
City Lights
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...meters. Released 6 January 1931 in New York City by United Artists Corp.; re-released 8 April 1950. Filmed 1930 in Hollywood. Producer...Stanhope Wheatcroft ( Distinguished man at caf é ); John Rand ( Another tramp ); James Donnelly ( Foreman ); Robert Parrish... Read more

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Rand Corp.'s role in airport study moving into different flight path.(Up Front)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 6/28/2004; ; 482 words ; ...that the city would hire Rand Corp. to conduct a comprehensive...master plan proposal. The Rand Corp. study ... will be the most...terrorist target. Hahn countered Rand's conclusions with a report...Applications International Corp. But that failed to sway... Read more
Rand Corp. expected to stay at its home by the sea. (Up Front).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 5/20/2002; ; 395 words ; Rand Corp., which has been on a two-year...Ocean Ave., the source said. Rand's 50year-old headquarters complex...As recently as two months ago, Rand had considered purchasing an...Speyer Properties. Officials from Rand and Tishman Speyer would not... Read more
Think tank targets new client base. (Rand Corp.)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 9/29/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...the path being pursued by the Rand Corp., the Santa Monica think tank...these levels, said Jess Cook, a Rand spokesman. In the 1995-96 fiscal...the latest year for which Rand has figures - about 13.5 percent of Rand's work was for customers other... Read more
Rand Corp.(Research )(David Aaron appointed)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 11/15/2004; 31 words ; Rand Corp. has named David Aaron director of its Center for Middle East Pubic Policy and a member of the Rand-Qatar Policy Institute board. Aaron is a senior Rand Corp. fellow and veteran U.S. diplomat. Read more
Rand to develop its ocean view land. (Rand Corp.)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 9/29/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...institute has contemplated its project several times, but Rand's financial fortunes and the real estate development cycle...sync. Until now. Some people would probably categorize the Rand development as a project that's permanently on paper, said Iao Katagiri, Rand's deputy vice president and project ... Read more
USA: RAND CORP AWARDED CONTRACT FOR RAND PROJECT.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 10/16/2005; 95 words ; RAND Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., is being awarded a $210,647,913 cost reimbursement, plus fee-for-need contract to provide for RAND Project Air Force, Research of Air and Space Power.[sz] This is a five-year option period, which covers the contract for a ten... Read more
Rand Corp.(Non-Profit)(Rand Corp appoints Bruce Karatz and Ratan N. Tata )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 11/13/2006; 39 words ; Rand Corp., a research organization that provides analysis for the public and private sector, has appointed Bruce Karatz and Ratan N. Tata as members of the board. Karatz is chairman and chief executive of KB Home; Tata is chairman of Tata Sons Ltd. Read more
Palatial tastes. (Real Estate).(Rand Corp.)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 6/17/2002; ; 241 words ; Economy be damned, Rand Corp. is not going to skimp on its new digs...technically-advanced headquarters, said Rand spokesman David Egner. This building will...said Shannon. And obviously, they are. Rand had been looking at 6100 Center Dr. in... Read more
Rand scopes out new raison d'etre in post-Cold War social structure. (Rand Corp.)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 6/14/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...effort to reshape Rand after the end of the Cold War because Rand was formed directly as a result of the Cold War, said Thomson...said his new position is in the office of the president of Rand and involves searching out new sources of funding, as well...the most significant in terms of the future ... Read more
Rand Corp.(Research)(Debra Knopman appointed)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 9/6/2004; 51 words ; ...Knopman has been appointed director of the Rand Corp.'s new infrastructure, Safety and Environment...was previously associate director of Rand Science and Technology. Jack Riley has...unit. Riley was previously director of Rand's Homeland Security Center. Read more