Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four million workers get automatic increases in 1958 (escalator clauses). It is like overfeeding a patient who has boils.
Untidy Troops. Castro's unpaid volunteer troops form a disorganized, barebones partisan army. They wear blue jeans or khaki pants, Truman shirts or Eisenhower jackets. About 10% have modern weapons, Garands captured from the Cuban army. The rest carry .22-cal. target rifles, double-barreled shotguns, Belgian sporting rifles...
To the task Gunther brings driving curiosity, elephantine memory, gregarious charm, ferocious vitality. Reporter Gunther also has phenomenally sharp ears and eyes for the telling anecdote and the detail that vividly catches the mood. He has a homing instinct for the essentials in a complex situation. He is a master...
Labor unions, says Allen, "introduced undesirable rigidities into our cost structure" with the automatic cost-of-living hike that makes about 4,000,000 workers eligible for wage increases in 1958. Employers in turn "accepted such rigidities so long as selling prices could be increased without reduction of markets." Now...
Skip the Change. An automatic change dispenser for cash registers which speeds up supermarket checkouts by 30% was announced by National Cash Register Co. Instead of the usual two or three times that change is counted per transaction (with an average 15% error rate), the new machine registers the change...