Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer that can automatically prepare edited copy at the rate of better than 2,000 lines an hour-theoretically ten times faster than a journeyman Linotypist. After experimenting with it on a dry-run basis, Mrs. Schiff last week ordered the machine into operation. The union balked, and Bertram Powers, single-minded president of the International Typographical Union Local No. 6, laid down his demands. His men would refuse to operate the machine, insisted Powers, until there was an agreement with Mrs. Schiff to share wage savings from the computer operation on a fifty-fifty basis with the union...
Died. Dr. James Bertram Collip, 72, Belleville, Ont., biochemist, purifier and co-developer (with Nobel Prizewinners Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. J.J.R. MacLeod, and Dr. Charles H. Best) of insulin for the treatment of diabetes, who also won world renown for his study of hormones, which regulate the body's metabolic functions, becoming one of the pioneers in the isolation of wonder-working ACTH and cortisone; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in London...
...necessity for such drastic change stems from 1963's 114-day strike and the subsequent wage settlements, which have cost the New York papers an extra $25 million a year. Moreover, the intransigence of Bertram A. Powers' printers' union has prevented any agreement on automation-a must for survival. It was Powers who brought the publishers together. During the strike, they got in the habit of seeing one another regularly and discussing their financial woes. "They can't fool each other any more," says one newspaper executive. "They know perfectly well who's making...
...four years, the Miami-to-Nassau powerboat race has been monopolized by Boatbuilder Dick Bertram, 49, whose V-hulled Moppies were especially designed to knife through the usually choppy, churning seas. Last week Bertram was back with a brand-new, 38-ft. "heavy weather" boat powered by twin 550-h.p. General Motors diesels. But where was the weather? The 183-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau was as calm as a Palm Beach swimming pool. "Any ski boat could win this race," sneered one disgruntled skipper as 46 competitors lined up for the start...
...leaders reached Cat Cay, just 44½ miles from Miami, it was a two-boat race. Don Aronow, whose boatyard had already turned out the successful Formula racers, had come up with a new boat: Donzi 007, a fiberglass 28-footer, with a deep-V hull like the Bertram and powered by two 450-h.p. Ford engines. His competition was Merrick Lewis, whose Holocaust (730 horses packed into a 23-ft. frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots as he screamed into...