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- ↑ Nuclear Regulatory Commission: The Martin Company, Special Meeting of Stockholers (PDF)
- 1 2 US Government Publishing Office: Congressional Record, December 5 1963 (PDF)
- ↑ The Cardston News, Thursday August 20th 1931
- ↑ MIT: The Tech: Wednesday, March 11, 1964 (PDF)
- ↑ CNN Money: Fortune 500 Archive: American-Marietta
- ↑ The Heritage Foundation: Heritage Foundation Launches Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget
- ↑ The Founding of Lockheed Martin", official website of Lockheed Martin Corp., retrieved December 4, 2017