Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Project scientists first recommended construction of the far-north warning line three years ago. Their estimate of its cost: $1 billion. At a time when the Soviet Union's best long-range bomber was a 300-m.p.h. copy of the U.S. B29...
Full of foreboding, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther* stepped before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report in Washington last week to talk about the future. As far as Reuther could see, the horizon was cloudy-and the blackest clouds of all bore the label "automation." Citing the example of an...
¶The New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads installed automatic control centers (see cut) for dispensing tickets in seven stations, including Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, plan other installations along their lines. A "ready sale"board, resembling a stock broker's quotation board, tells both customer and ticket...
Man gave in to machine in yet another sphere when the Memorial Church Bell was placed under automatic control after some 311 years of human manipulation. Then Arnold J. Toynbee came to talk and 5,000 people came to hear. A near-riot ensued when most of them couldn't...
The "inside men" of last week's plot to topple the Guatemalan government were supposed to fling open the gates at Aurora air base, the country's key military post, precisely at 1:30 p.m. A little before that time, 25 of the plotters drifted casually around; four...