Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxed, racked or knocked. But if he is still not sure whether he can grease (just pass), he may turn rider (cribber). He finds a pony to ride or gets a cheat sheet and then, all saddled up, feels ready to face even Flunkenstein, the prof's IBM grading machine...
...points on the American Exchange. So great was the confusion when trading in Fairchild Camera was suspended temporarily that Exchange President Edward T. McCormick went onto the floor to discuss the break at Fairchild's trading post. Other electronics stocks followed; Texas Instruments fell 3⅞, IBM 2½. Zenith 4⅛, Litton...
What has enabled Price to transform the prefab is intensive automation of his factories. IBM machines control quality and monitor shipments. Nailing machines pound nails into interior and exterior sections with a single bang, and machines automatically cut, sand and paint every section. Overhead cranes move parts down a long assembly line, hoist them onto one of Price's fleet of 476 trucks which take on a house every seven minutes...
System Development engineers have already teamed with the Veterans Administration to compare the effects of various treatments on patients with a form of heart disease. Physicians at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital are using IBM computers to sift mountains of data on blood diseases, and getting answers that may suggest changes in treatment...
...GOLDEN YOUTH OF LEE PRINCE, by Aubrey Goodman (344 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.50), belies the gloom criers who think that U.S. youth consists entirely of beard bearers on one hand and IBM trainees on the other. There are still gold-hatted, high-bouncing young men who know their way to the washroom in the Union Club. In his resplendently gold-jacketed first novel, Yaleman Goodman, 23, lists a few undergraduate acolytes who keep the torch flaming: "Lawlor Reck, who had won the Charleston contest at the Everglades Club in Florida for six years running . . . one of the Du Pont boys...