Word: digit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be allowed to underwrite state and municipal revenue bonds, and with the Securities and Exchange Commission over whether bank stocks should be regulated by the SEC. Last spring, after Saxon asked regional banking supervisors to drum up support for him among the national bankers, he came within a digit of being sacked by President Kennedy...
...launched Accelerated Business Collection-Delivery (ABCD), a service in which letters mailed in any of 273 cities by 11 a.m. are delivered to any point in the downtown section of the city by 3 p.m. the same day. Day's recently inaugurated Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP), using five-digit codes affixed by the sender, is designed to speed mail service by pinpointing exactly how the letter should be routed-through one of ten U.S. regions, and on to states, cities, towns, postal zones or even large office buildings. Already in use by advertising mailers, ZIP eliminates as many...
...Hutchinson Family drew abolitionist admirers like William Lloyd Garrison. Today's folk singers are lyrically lashing out at everything from nuclear fallout (What Have They Done to the Rain?) and the American Medical Association ("We really love to stitch/ The diseases of the rich"), to direct-digit dialing ("560 million, 900,000 more, 137, extension 24"). But not since labor's big national organizing drive of the 1930s, when nearly everyone in the country knew at least a few lines of We Shall Not Be Moved, has there been such an outpouring of original songs as has been...
...telephone company, one of the most awesome monopolies of them all, has stepped up its program of numerifying its subscribers with total-digit dialing, a truly ugly business. The Department of Defense, clutching its monopoly over selective service, has long regarded the populace as a vast network of draft numbers. Other government agencies holding other monopolies are beginning to follow suit...
...repeated it accurately. For more than an hour the long-distance conversation continued, carried on in a language of carefully spaced pulses of radio energy. At Goldstone these pulses appeared as mere dots on a slowly moving tape. But each combi nation of dots represented numbers in the two-digit binary code that computers understand best. Finally, Goldstone sent "Signal RTC-6," which told Mariner II to execute all the commands one hour later...