Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The federal government will ask the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a refund of $7 million it loaned the state to build a criminal records computer because the project has not been completed.
In an audit published last week, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) said the organization charged with building the computer, the Criminal History Systems Board (CHSB) could not document how it had spent the funds.
The state founded CHSB in 1972 to promulgate standards for storage and dissemination of criminal records and for building a criminal records computer.
Suffering businessmen, using effective Washington lobbying, began to complain loudly. President William LaMothe of the Kellogg cereal company accused the commission of exhibiting "absence of fundamental fairness." Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford said that the agency had offended every businessman in his state. He noted that Louisville's Brown & Williamson...
So he launched General Leasing Co., later abridged to Gelco. It grew big because Grossman had a further idea: don't just lease vehicles but also manage them, keep computer records on when each one needs a lube job or a tire change, when to trade it in for...