Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their customers happy as well. From any of Goodbody's 39 branches outside New York City a customer's order is teletyped over A.T. & T.'s Finac network to the home office, where an operator puts it into one of the variously colored grooves in a conveyor belt to route it to the right clerk. Within minutes the order is telephoned to one of Goodbody's brokers on the Exchange floor. On normal trading days a buyer in Palm Beach can have his order executed in New York and get notification within five minutes. At Goodbody...
Like many a U.S. businessman who regarded automation as an effortlessly efficient conveyor belt to future savings, the U.S. Post Office is discovering that the automated ride has its bumps and grinds. The first automated post office, costing some $20 million, went into operation after Thanksgiving, in Providence...
...American's is designed to speed and pamper the often delayed and neglected air passenger. Instead of wrestling with swinging doors, the passenger enters the building through an 89-ft.-wide opening, which has an air curtain to keep out the weather. He puts his luggage on a conveyor, which speeds it on and off the scales, scoots it to the baggage area. Six 12-ft. electronic boards flash the latest flight information...