Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cherington, an expert in transportation and government regulation of industry, said that a rural area with adequate means of access would be the best location for the academic community of the future. Peterborough, he said, "has a lot of fine, vacant land. And it will be closer to New York by automobile," he said, "particularly when they get this new Buck Rodgers highway...
...Access to Education...
...statement in the CRIMSON typified the feeling in most of the world outside of the South: "Now, finally, the Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation will eliminate this whole problem [of second-rate citizenship] at one stroke. It will give the Southern Negro access to the education without which he can never hope to achieve equal status...
...rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon has dredged a nine-mile cut to the waterway to ship goods from its chemical plant at Seadrift, Texas, while Chemstrand Corp. dredged a 22-mile channel near Tallahassee, Fla., to give its huge nylon plant access...
Memory Machine. International Business Machines introduced a memory computer to step up office automation. The computer will tell a businessman immediately how daily transactions in sales, payroll, inventory, production, etc. affect any desired aspect of his business. Called RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting machine), the computer also serves as an electronic filing cabinet in which company figures are stored on 50 magnetic metal disks, will turn out any needed figure in seconds, thus eliminate endless hours of file checking. Rental per month...