Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of the discounters' troubles comes from a general slump in the appliance market. With overall sales down some 10% this year, many a discounter, depending on high volume to make his cut-rate prices pay off, is in dire straits. Chicago's Grossi Bros, cites manufacturers'...
We-Drive-It. Perfect Circle Corp. has developed a speed-control device which automatically drives a car at a steady, preset speed. Planned as optional equipment on 1958 Chryslers, Speedostat electrically links the foot-throttle, carburetor and transmission to a dashboard dial on which the driver sets the speed he...
Next month Orr will announce another new tape, especially designed for long-life storage of valuable documents. The tape will last for up to 100 years, cannot be erased, thus eliminating one of the drawbacks of present tape, which can easily be accidentally erased. Orr sees unlimited uses for tape...
What had happened? "Miscalculation," said an editorial in the Times of London. "Mishandled from the start," snapped the Daily Mail. Far from being frightened off by the first sorties of fighter planes (with instructions to strafe only unoccupied forts, cars and donkey carts), the Imam's men had proved...
The Russians have also given Kabul an automatic telephone system, which, reported Warner, has virtually paralyzed Kabul's bureaucracy because officials with phones spend the better part of their working day trying to think of someone to ring up.