Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corona del Mar, Calif...
HARMON WESTON Corona del Mar, Calif...
Whether the day begins in his cluttered fifth-floor apartment in a Manhattan upper East Side brownstone or in his white frame cottage in Key West, Williams brews up a pot of Stygian coffee and plants himself in front of a Smith-Corona electric. He has no set output and contends that "out of a year's writing days, there are only five good ones." He may work on any one of three or four manuscripts. Last week, in Key West, he was working on his next play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, about...
...part because "there was a substantial increase in outright sales of data-processing equipment." (By contrast, MINNEAPOLIS-HONEYWELL, which rents most of its computers instead of selling them, and thus must wait longer to earn back its heavy development costs, reported earnings off 5% to $25 million.) SMITH-CORONA MARCHANT managed to buck a slow market for its typewriters by swinging into production of small computers and by automating its assembly lines; the company boosted profits to $1,600,000 in the last half of 1961, up 147% from the same period in 1960. Automation actually made jobs at Smith...
...hosed down or herded into a soaking pen, and washing consumes about 30 gal. of water per cow. The Cowash, which uses about 3 gal. per cow, operates pretty much like an automatic automobile washer, with the cow tripping the switches as she moves along the track. Says Corona, Calif.'s Milk Mogul Tony Cardoza: "The cows are much more relaxed now." CJ Automatic foreign-currency exchange machine, installed at Sabena airlines' passenger lounge at New York's Idlewild Airport, which trades currencies from France, England, Belgium, West Germany and Italy for a U.S. $5 bill. Manufactured...