Word: ests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electronics boom, moved to 128. In 1929 Farrington devised the department stores' Charga-Plate, which gave it entry to two of the 1950s' hottest business areas-credit cards and automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner that reads, then transmits the information it has read onto cards or tapes that can be used by IBM machines and other...
INDIANAPOLIS, April 30--Floyd Patterson will defend his world heavyweight boxing title tomorrow against England's Brian London, a sturdy "tuneup" foe for the champion's June date with Ingemar Johannsson. The match will take place here at 9 p.m. EST...
...powerful government radio telescope lost contact with the 13-pound cone at 10:24 a.m. EST. The General Electric Co. tracking station at Schenectady, N.Y., reported flickering signals until shortly after...
...pass came at 5:24 p.m. EST. Scientists calculated the 13-pound cone came within 37,000 mles of the moon. At the time, government scientists said, the gold-plated vehicle was 236,000 miles from earth...
...Paraphrasing Horace: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori...