Word: abacuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abacus. Tall, California-born Ralph C. Coxhead, the company's tinkering board chairman, had never set out to start a lower-case revolution. A salesman of office machines, he once helped to get Hawaiian sugar growers to use mechanical calculators in place of the Chinese abacus. He did even better in New York, where, in partnership with his brother, Stuart (now president of the company), he set up Coxhead Corp. as an agency for German Mercedes calculators...
...Reader Link lend his abacus to the Chapultepec florist...
...Moving Parts. Calculating machines, which are as old as the Chinese abacus, have been growing steadily more complicated. But until now, they had not caught up with science's need for their services...
...Raymond Massey adroitly wasting their time on a tedious drawing-room comedy of English puppet love. Dodie Smith, who in Autumn Crocus and Call It a Day wrote agreeable matinee folderol, in Lovers and Friends has worked out one of the oldest problems in sexual geometry on a theatrical abacus...