Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday, January 8 DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). Exploring "The Age of Mechanical Marvels" with a visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., to see the Model Ts and such other turn-of-the-century wonders as the charcoal-heated iron and the gasoline-heated bathtub...
...dream world away from the machine that gave Burroughs its start in St. Louis in 1888. This was William Seward Burroughs' arithmometer, an iron-and-glass adding device. For years Burroughs built purely mechanical adding machines, typewriters, cash registers and check printers. Turning to defense production during World War II, the company developed the Norden bombsight, then began dabbling in computers in 1947, with a small research lab. Burroughs has since developed automated check-reading devices, computers and a new family of moderately priced electronic "business systems" that handle accounting, inventory, payroll, production programming and record keeping for banks...
...Three major steel companies-Dorman Long, South Durham Steel and Iron, and Stewarts and Lloyds-agreed to fuse into a group that will rival the new steel titans on the Continent, be capable of producing a quarter of Britain's steel needs. The merger was prompted by the demand for pipe created by newly found North Sea gas. Short of pipe capacity, Stewarts and Lloyds and South Durham plan to use Dorman Long's new plate plant at Lackenby as a source of supply. Since that is just the kind of resource pooling that the nationalization-bent government...
Last week Alcoa won final government approval of a proposal to spend $56 million building a new aluminum plant. Also last week United Brazilian Minerals, which is 49% owned by Cleveland's Hanna Mining, was granted the right to mine and export iron ore and eventually to manufacture steel, an ambitious $600 million enterprise. The two new projects were only the latest in a spate of similar announcements. Phil lips Petroleum plans to pump in some $60 million, starting with a new fertilizer plant for which ground has already been broken. Union Carbide will expand its operations...
...then, Cerf is called in to iron things out when editor-writer relations get difficult. He cajoled Jerome Weidman into rewriting a badly tooled draft of his forthcoming book, Other People's Money. Cerf also thought up the title for the book, as he did for Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants, William Brinkley's Don't Go Near the Wa ter, and Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate...