Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cottell's process is being used experimentally in the boiler rooms of a grade school and Adelphi University, both on Long Island. Based on favorable early results at the grade school, Francis Cashin, chairman of the Committee on Energy and Environment of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, recommended that Adelphi try the process. The university is devising a series of tests, and Cashin expects the boilers' efficiency (the amount of energy that they can draw from a given amount of fuel) to rise significantly. This month the government of Nassau County, N.Y., plans to begin...
Take for example the following comment made by Mr. Hall after describing all the wonderful benefits of owning a Delta 2000: "Nevermore should we have a burnt out boiler. Harvard is way ahead of the competition in this area." Now while I can almost understand Hall's high regard for his computer, the stuff about being ahead of the competition just goes over my head. Who's Harvard's competition anyway? Let's hope that Yale never hears about this whole thing or else we might find ourselves in the middle of an ever-escalating computer warfare. Yale will...
Hall's real love for the machine derives from the fact that the Delta can save some money for the Harvard administration. Hall says that the system will make back the money originally invested in it just by preventing the breaking of boiler systems for a couple of years. After those couple of years, Hall says, whatever the Delta saves is pure profit...
...Miami area, several firms operate "boiler rooms" from which batteries of salesmen make long-distance telephone pitches. Salesmen for one such firm try to get prospects to buy $5,000 lots for $50 down and $50 a month-and to put the first $50 check in the next mail-with the promise that the buyer can quickly resell the land for a huge profit. Excerpts from one telephone spiel: "I'm going to make an offer that will definitely be of interest to you, especially if you're interested in making money ... If you saw that you could...
...badly undermined what was left of his credibility. Last week a number of Washington observers again felt that he had weathered the worst accusations against him, and that the recess would bring him time for recovery. As one of his aides remarked: "If you keep a fire under a boiler long enough, pretty soon you boil all the water out, and finally you burn even the bottom of the boiler. I sense that's what has happened with Watergate...