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Despite its wide and often imaginative diversification, Goodyear still rolls along on rubber tires, making 2,500 different sizes and styles that account for two-thirds of its business. Last month the company produced its billionth tire, and Goodyear men boast that every carmaker in the Western world uses some of their tires as original equipment. In the U.S. this year, Goodyear will sell a third of the 41 million tires for new cars and a fourth of the 80 million replacement tires. It blankets the country with 73,000 sales outlets and, despite a drop of nearly...
Already in the U.S., automated tool lines can produce an entire automobile without a single worker, and control computers can make decisions in one three-billionth of a second. To gasps from the audience, Wilson turned on the trade union leaders who have tried to prevent automation: "We have no room for Luddites in the Labor Party."* The answer, he declared, is not to thwart technological progress but to keep pace with it by providing 10 million new jobs in the next decade. Said he: "These facts put the whole argument about industry and socialism in new perspective...
...Thirty-seven atomic disintegrations per second, or one-billionth of a curie...
Somewhere among all those collisions, if theory was correct, the anti-Xi-zero particle had been born, had lived and died-all in one ten-billionth of a second. The physicists began searching through some 300,000 photographs of the reaction to find the elusive particle. Last week, nearly two years later, they reported success in Physical Review Letters...
...very much bigger than the moon, and its orbit keeps it close to the troublesome sun. When Goldstone's radar waves set out for Mercury, they had an effective strength of 25 billion watts. By the time they straggled back, they mustered only five ten-thousandths of a billionth of a billionth of a watt. They had lost the even regularity of oscillation with which they had started, and now they were wiggling wildly because of the beatings they had taken on the surface of Mercury...