Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning shape-ups of New York dock workers were pretty much as the movie portrayed them-noisy, brawling scenes of men fighting for the jobs available. No longer. Now longshoremen "badge in" at 7:30 a.m. at local hiring halls by inserting a plastic card into an IBM computer and lounge around for a while. By 9 a.m. the unlucky ones have gone to work; the others can go home to watch TV or moonlight on a second job-and still collect full base pay ($64 per day). That undemanding life is largely the result of a combination...
...year for ads explaining that its corporate name is not a synonym for making a photocopy but the registered trademark for a specific process involving only Xerox machines. In the U.S. alone, the Coca-Cola Co. retains three lawyers to stand guard over the trademark "Coke." Other companies like IBM, RCA and Gillette also retain full-time trademark attorneys to keep products built by advertising into household words from becoming just household words. Even Britain's Freddy Laker has hired a Washington lawyer to protect Laker Airways' registered "Skytrain." Airlines, including Braniff, which applied for a no-reservation...
Least sanguine is David Grove, chief economist of IBM. Though he anticipates slightly under 5% growth this year, he looks for a decline in expansion rates during the second half of 1978, and in the third quarter of 1979 an anemic increase of just 2% to 3%. Says Grove: "We will have a fragile economy as we get into the latter part of next year. When that happens, it doesn't take much in the way of external shocks to push the economy downhill fairly fast...
Electricity and Electronics: Like the auto companies, U.S. electrical and electronics companies have established major plants in South Africa. They produce and market sophisticated equipment, much of it used by the regime's utilities, military forces and police. For example, IBM computers are used by the South African army and the regime's Atomic Energy Board. The West German company. AEG-Telefunken--of which General Electric (G.E.) owns about 15 per cent--supplied the regime's Simonstown military tracking system with sophisticated electronic equipment. ITT also provided equipment and recruited and trained engineers for the base...
...Government$246,914,156 IBM $74,109,498 Ford $55,562,975 Mobil $53,036,556 Exxon $41,937,361 Quebec Hydro-Electric $31,354,629 G.M. $30,614,761 Eastman Kodak $26,828,948 Continental Oil $22,064,320 General Reinsurance Group $21,790,981 MAPCO $21,218,851 Getty $20,219,9033 Atlantic Richfield $17,570,839 Standard Oil of California $17,074,654 St. Regis Paper $15,353,397 General Electric $15,187,405 Sears, Roebuck $14,924,096 Beneficial $13,822,884 Caterpillar Tractor $13,741,103 Province of Ontario $12,335,910 Dow Chemical...