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Ad for Hughes Aircraft Company in d for Hughes Aircraft Company in 1957:

Can microwave radio someday help you manage your business?

Right now Hughes is doing extensive microwave and millimeter-wave research which will help make it possible in the future for private business to use thousands of individual radio channels not now assignable.

When that day comes, you will be able to transmit and receive up-to-the-minute information on every phase of your business without waiting for reports to be mailed to and from branch offices, warehouses, and outlying plants.

With radio-transmitted data on production, sales and inventory from a computer, you will be able to have a split-second analysis of up-to-the-minute statistics about your business at any time, day or night.

Hughes MICROWAVE TUBES and other electronic advances can be expected to contribute to the efficiency and operating economy of microwave radio networks.

As one of the country's largest electronics research and manufacturing firms, Hughes is constantly at work on new developments in electron tubes, semiconductors, and industrial systems and controls which will play a prominent part in creating a new world with electronics.

A Hughes Products sales engineer will gladly work with your staff on time-, work-, and money-saving applications of Hughes electronic products to your office and plant operations. Write Hughes Products, Los Angeles 45, Calif.

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