Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Outward Sign. Europe's brisk plunge into external convertibility had one important side effect. It spelled the end of a useful eight-year-old system, the European Payments Union. Foreseeing such a day, 17 countries of Western Europe pledged themselves, back in 1955, to settle their foreign-trade...
¶ Aluminum, which dropped 8% in 1958. will increase shipments by about 20% to 2,100,000 tons next year, says Alcoa Market Researcher E. M. Strauss Jr., who foresees expanding markets in the auto industry, containers and construction. ¶ Appliances will have a banner year, with sales up 5...
Lippmann scarcely notices. The coils of a creative mood have been steadily tightening since 6 o'clock, when he awakened and lay awhile in bed, reflecting. Now it is 9. In two hours or so, writing with ink in a pinched, illegible script, abbreviating wherever possible ("negotiate" becomes "nego...
On Saturdays work slows, and the city's center fills with men, women and children with pesos in their pockets. They mill through Sears, Roebuck, buying made-in-Mexico soap, blankets, toys and washing machines. They sit in chrome chairs along barbershop and beauty-parlor walls, waiting and listening...
In a low-ceilinged, fluorescent-lit basement room in Sever Hall stands a row of machines which may someday supply such efficiency. They are updated models, constructed by Professor Skinner, of the teaching machines devised in the '20's by the inventor Sidney L. Pressey. The teaching machines facilitate automatic...