Jukebox Pioneer David Rockola Still Leads Firm at 90
Addison Illinois AP reports David C Rockola founder and chairman of Rockola Manufacturing Corp remains active at 90 guiding a jukebox empire once global. He shifted from scales in 1930 to jukeboxselling nostalgia models while continuing daily plant visits and family leadership drives.
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David C. Rockola
Brazil
Rockola
Ed Jones
Rockola Manufacturing Corp
Chicago
Margaret
Donald
Wurlitzer
Seeburg
AMI
Jones
Des Moines
Iowa
Germany
Ami-Rowe
Rick Botts
Botts
Spectravox
Donald Rockola
David Rockola
SETI gains 10 million channels with Stanford chip
Stanford graduate students developed a chip 40 times more powerful for NASA's SETI program. The 1.2 cm square device holds 34 000 transistors and performs 80 million operations per second, boosting the telescope's ability to scan 10 million radio channels for artificial signals from extraterrestrials in the Mojave Desert.
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Stanford
Calif
Stanford University
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SETI
Mojave Desert
Ivan Linscott
Bryn Eckroot
Linscott
NASA
Allen Peterson
Taiwan to Import South Carolina Wine Shipment Deal
Sen. Ed Garrison says an agreement by Truluck Vineyards to export a year’s wine supply to Taiwan could open doors for more SC agricultural products. Dr. Jim Truluck signed with The Golden Sheep Industrial Co. in Taipei, with monthly shipments from Charleston or Savannah totaling about 20 000 gallons.
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Lake City
Taiwan
South Carolina
Ed Garrison
Jim Truluck
Truluck Vineyards
Golden Sheep Industrial Co
Taipei
Nah
Truluck
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