Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week went two eager makers of business machines with audacious plans to challenge the International Business Machines Corp. in IBM's home market. The foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines Bull. Barely known outside France ten years ago, Machines Bull manufactures a line of punch-card and sorting machines topped off by computers. Recently it pulled abreast of IBM in many markets of the Continent, is now the biggest computer maker outside...
David v. Goliath. In daring to challenge Goliath IBM, Callies and Vieillard know that they are still in point of present gross (estimated for this year at $35 million) a pretty small David. But they count on the fact that they are showing a fast sales-growth rate. Annually since 1946, their exports have risen 25%. Last year they shipped $18 million worth of equipment to customers in 42 countries. Of that, $9,000,000 went to countries in the dollar area...
...sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were only half as fast. During the war its engineers designed a postwar line of advanced electronic computers, the first of which, the Gamma 3, appeared...
...ability to remain calm in every circumstance. Born in San Francisco, he went to Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. before joining Pennsy as an engineering trainee in 1928, highballed up the corporate track, was boosted to vice president in 1955. Along the route, he distinguished himself by making fast decisions, stopping the buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding the rails. As chief administrative officer, he will be in charge of the road's everyday operation, will have even less...
...Story. A fast-draw documentary of an upright Hoover man, which manages to click despite a cluttering subplot concerning the domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart...