Word: digitals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called for an end to traditional certificates. The committee, composed of bank and stock-exchange officials, announced that by the end of 1969, it hoped to replace all the certificates of actively traded issues with a standard-sized punch card. Every stock or bond issue will have an eight-digit identification number that will be used on all wire communications, transactions, transfers and dividend claims. Standard & Poor's will spend close to $1,000,000 coding some 1,000,000 stocks and bond issues into two directories, each the size of the Manhattan phone book. It plans to make...
...involved in this movement and one thing led to another. I am not a leader, you understand. But leaders cannot seize and occupy buildings. It takes great numbers of people to do that. I am one of those great numbers. This article is the chronicle of a single revolutionary digit...
Throughout the sequence, Uncle T listened with agitation. "The weird thing about this," he exclaimed, "is that Spellman just died. This is hitting 'em right in the face, and a lot of people really aren't going to digit. It's going to infuriate a lot of people...
Because finger nerves are too small for grafting, the transplanted digit has little or no sensation, and there is not much flexion at its joints. The new finger must be moved as a unit from the knuckle. This is no great drawback, particularly for thumb grafts, which have enabled patients to pick up and use tools, a pen, a spoon or a glass...
...Julian is different; he takes things less seriously. When talking to the Harvard kids running the SOUTHERN COURIER, an Alabama weekly, he suggested they run a box on their front page with a picture of a bird, any bird, entitled "Wise Old Bird." Then underneath the bird any three-digit lottery number...