Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automation is to make sure that cost savings are quickly translated into prices that substantially increase volume, thus avoiding the need of layoffs. Thompson Ramo Wooldridge's auto valve division at Cleveland is now so fully automated that men in white coats man the control panels that feed instructions electronically to unmanned lathes and other machines. But what the company has done has so expanded sales that before a production worker had to be laid off, another job turned up elsewhere...