Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replies of a few others were markedly amused and somewhat deprecatory. The reason was discovered before the replies reached the mouth of University Hall's IBM machine: a full page of statistics on Carriers of Intestinal Pathogens in Four Alaskan Communities had been substituted for the usual page two (marital status and reading habits). All in all, a return of only 70 per cent was received...
...favorite guessing game on Wall Street these days is figuring how high the industrials would be if American Telephone & Telegraph had not been substituted in 1939 for International Business Machines. Since then, IBM has gone up from 191 to 5.588, counting splits and stock dividends, while A.T. & T. has gone only from 165 to 200%. Harold Clayton of Hemphill, Noyes calculates that the average would now be at 1830, and other experts figure it at 910. All used different short-cut computations. To get the correct figure, it would be necessary to recompute the Dow-Jones average for every market...
However, pending verification by IBM, we have calculated that the St. Paul's bells across Bow Street ring 924 ponderous bongs per day, every day of the year. Except on Sundays, when they ring even more. We think of this every conscious quarter hour of the day, and at 7:10 a.m., 12:10 p.m., and 6:10 p.m. It is not within the scope of this letter to enumerate in detail the various personal agonies experienced during and after each of these numerous reminders of Man's Condition, and the apprehensions involved in this lengthy countdown before the launching...
Faster Ticketing. American is working with IBM on an electronic system that can transmit information on every American flight across the U.S., enabling clerks to tell instantly which seats are free...
General Electric $58.6 $55.2 Raytheon Mfg. 2.5 1.0 Underwood Corp. .9 (loss) .2 IBM 40.9 22.3 (inclduing non-recurring $14 million capital gain...