Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost $3,000,000. The company's first client, Norfolk and Western Railroad, last week signed a new contract calling for 235,000 miles on EJA's 16 six-seat Lear jets and three French-built, ten-passenger Falcons. Among other clients are Xerox, Mead Johnson, IBM, General Electric, White Motor Corp., Cincinnati Milling Machine and HMH Publishing Co., whose Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner flies out to give campus lectures on the philosophy of sex, always jets back to his Chicago pad by bedtime...
...Menk cut paper work by ordering 419 forms discontinued, including one that took five hours to prepare and was then promptly filed and forgotten, has also trimmed 1,200 employees from the payroll, shifted others. >To regulate freight-car movements more efficiently, the Burlington is leasing an IBM 360 computer, is also building a $6,500,000 private microwave system to speed computer data between Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul...
...weekend last February, 75 companies and Government agencies set up recruiting booths in the Civic Auditorium. Among those represented: Metropolitan Life, Safeway Stores, General Electric, IBM, Bank of America, Trans World Airlines, Levi Strauss. To draw a large crowd, sound trucks blared the news of the fair through neighborhoods heavily populated by Negroes, and clergymen spread the word from pulpits. In all 10,000 people showed up looking for jobs. They met with company recruiters, some of them Negroes, who explained each company's requirements and opportunities...
...Western companies went all out to sell them. The British, who had conceived Incomex '66, opened case after case of Scotch for their visitors, who thirsted not only for knowledge. From New York, London, Vienna and Stuttgart, IBM rushed in programmers to solve particular problems. Sperry Rand, displaying eight plaques representing earlier sales to Communist customers, advertised itself proudly as "The Pioneer of Automation in Socialist States...
...IBM and its competitors have some selling to do before they can tap this market fully. The U.S. and British governments still refuse permits for the sale to the East of such advanced third-generation equipment as the IBM System/360 and English Electric's System 4, which computer commissars want to buy most of all. Beyond that, as Western experts discovered at Prague, the East is woefully ignorant of even second-generation procedures and equipment. "In most cases," commented one American expert, "the machines are too sophisticated for the problems. The Communists are very good in theory, but they...