Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world of M.I.T. He learned a lot about mutual funds, but little about the bonus : some hot tips on the stock market. Only at the very end did M.I.T.'s closemouthed men loosen up enough to venture that M.I.T. looks with favor on such true-blue chips as IBM and U.S. Steel...
Acclimated to our IBM-ized society, yearbooks at Harvard are distinguished by serial numbers--321, 322, and now 323. While the Radcliffe yearbooks is a recent convert to the merger trend, it has at least escaped being reduced to a cipher. The new volume is not "80;" it is still The Radcliffe Yearbook...
...They also enlarge the supply of stock to keep up with corporate growth. Otherwise, as institutions have stepped up their buying of blue chips, the supply of stocks would have become so short that the price would have climbed far above the level that the public could afford. IBM would scarcely be widely held if it had not had many splits; one share today would cost more than $17,000. Thus, by seeking out new stockholders by splits, U.S. industry is making people's capitalism one of the major sources of strength in the U.S. economy...
Citing the high proportion of students entering their first choice House, Watson praised the present system of House assignments. "Although it's a great deal of work, it is far preferable to the IBM method used at Yale," he remarked...
...Philip Johnson's New Harmony Shrine, New Harmony, Ind., a bell-shaped structure with shingle roof that unabashedly owes its inspiration to Hindu temples, yet proved so complicated that an IBM machine took two weeks to calculate its compound curves...