• Litton Industries, Inc., was an American defense contractor that specialized in shipbuilding, aerospace, electronic components, and information technology...
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  • drove from Vancouver to Toronto, Canada planting the bomb outside Litton Industries, a manufacturer of American cruise missile components many feared...
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  • of dynamite and drove from Vancouver to Toronto. Their target was Litton Industries, a company producing guidance components for the controversial American...
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  • community Litton (surname) Litton Entertainment, an American television program producer Litton Industries, a defunct conglomerate Litton, an appliance...
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    several companies and organizations, including Texas Instruments and Litton Industries, receiving numerous patents in electronics. Bernhard Einstein was...
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  • 1981) was an American business executive who was the founder of Litton Industries. Charles Bates Thornton was born on July 22, 1913, in Goree, Texas...
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  • TWTAs. In 1932, Charlie Litton started his own company in Redwood City, CA. By 1945 his company, known then as Litton Industries, had about 60 employees...
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    a contract in 1957 to build 12 nuclear-powered attack submarines. Litton Industries acquired Ingalls in 1961, and in 1968, expanded its facilities to...
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  • Geophysical (owned by Litton Industries) and Dresser Atlas. The resulting company was a joint venture of Litton and Dresser Industries until it was spun off...
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  • company prospered and was sold by Salvatori to Litton Industries in 1960. In 1987, Litton and Dresser Industries formed a joint venture comprising Western...
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  • five-story robotic system built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage...
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  • Avondale Shipyard was an independent shipbuilding company, acquired by Litton Industries, in turn acquired by Northrop Grumman Corporation. In 2011, along...
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  • later known as Monroe THE Calculator Company, and Monroe Division of Litton Industries. In 1911, Jay Randolph Monroe first saw the Baldwin Calculator, the...
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    generation image intensifier tube, and is primarily manufactured by Litton Industries (Now L-3 Warrior Systems) and Elbit Systems of America (formerly Harris...
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  • Henry Singleton and George Kozmetsky, both previously executives with Litton Industries, formed a firm named Instrument Systems located in Beverly Hills,...
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  • of New Britain, Connecticut, which was purchased by Litton Industries in the 1970s. When Litton dissolved its hand tools division in the 1980s, it sold...
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    inertial navigation system (INS) that was developed in the 1960s by Litton Industries. It equipped the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter versions used as strike...
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    Inc., and Sterling Software, Inc. In 2001, the company acquired Litton Industries, a shipbuilder and defense electronics systems provider for the U...
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    examples from the 1960s include Gulf and Western Industries, Ling-Temco-Vought, ITT Corporation, Litton Industries, Textron, and Teledyne. The trick was to look...
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    Production history Designer ITT Industries Litton Industries Designed 1982 Manufacturer ITT Industries Litton Industries Northrop Grumman L3 Communications...
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  • Action, a guerrilla organization known for the 1982 bombing of a Litton Industries plant, which made components for American cruise missiles. After her...
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    Lewis Crusoe, moving on to Hughes Aircraft, and later was head of Litton Industries. McNamara went on to become the United States Secretary of Defense...
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  • & Whitney JT9D for the Boeing 747. In 1974, Harry Jack Gray left Litton Industries to become the CEO of United Aircraft. He pursued a strategy of growth...
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  • 2000 to 2001, he was the president and chief operating officer of Litton Industries. He then was the president and chief operating officer of Northrop...
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    the early 1960s they built a conglomerate in a fashion similar to LTV or Litton, during which time they developed the first CAD system and explored optical...
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    income between acting jobs, Anders took a job as a receptionist at Litton Industries. Her final acting role was a guest spot in the two-part Gunsmoke episode...
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    Afghanistan Iraq War Production history Designed 1971 Manufacturer ITT Industries Litton Industries Variants AN/PVS-5, AN/PVS-5A, AN/PVS-5B, AN/PVS-5C Specifications...
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    Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was commissioned on 21 February 1976...
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    Li Westrex for the post-1956 divestiture of Western Electric under Litton Industries' ownership). Such branding ceased in about 1976, particularly after...
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    across the neighborhood. Since 2003, environmental testing on a former Litton Industries, later Northrop Grumman, industrial site revealed unsafe levels of...
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