Oral history interview with Herbert W. Robinson, 1988 July 13.

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Oral history interview with Herbert W. Robinson, 1988 July 13.

The Council for Economic and Industry Research, Inc. was formed in 1952 to perform operations research and model building for the U.S. Air Force. In 1953 Robinson took over the project, which was designed to identify strategic bomb targets in the Soviet Union based on potential economic damage. In 1954 a public company named the Corporation for Economic and Industrial Research, later C-E-I-R, Inc., was formed with Robinson as its president. Robinson discusses C-E-I-R acquisitions Automation Institutes, General Analysis Corporation, Data Tech, Arbitron (a television program rating company), and C-E-I-R de Mexico.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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