Word: cards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company's fees were about $1,800,000 a year when Booz retired in 1946 and Hamilton died. The job of coordinating, i.e., managing, partner fell to James L. Allen, then 41, a scholarly Kentuckian with a steel-trap mind for remembering facts and a punch-card sorting machine's ability to organize them. Holding that management analysts should continuously analyze themselves, Allen set up a think department to do nothing but figure out new services the firm could offer to an ever widening circle of clients...
...There's just one more thing," said Dr. Splint firmly. "I see by your card you have something you wanted to discuss with me. Would you like to tell me what that is?" Vag wondered how far he would get if he broke for the door...
Though the report made it unlikely that the West would urge a full-dress Security Council debate on Laos, and the Russians jeered that the report "collapsed the Laotian charges like a card castle," the fact was that the very presence of the U.N. observers in Laos has put a considerable damper on overt Communist activity. And at week's end U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold decided to fly to Laos himself to determine whether the situation warrants some kind of permanent, though informal U.N. surveillance-a measure the Laotians feel would go a long way toward keeping...
...International Business Machines Corp. in IBM's home market. The foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines Bull. Barely known outside France ten years ago, Machines Bull manufactures a line of punch-card and sorting machines topped off by computers. Recently it pulled abreast of IBM in many markets of the Continent, is now the biggest computer maker outside...
Automatic Foreman. Machines Bull was founded in 1931 by Vieillard, then an adding-machine-company engineer. He bought the patent rights to a type of punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were...