Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With 135,000 orders often pouring in in a single day, German efficiency was called upon to prevent chaos. Quelle set up the largest commercial data-processing installation of its kind in the world. For each incoming order, it determines in a few thousandths of a second if the item is available, computes the total price and shipping charge, prints instructions to the warehouse, and readjusts inventory. Quelle also installed a complicated packing and shipping conveyor operation that can be run from central control panels, can handle 150,000 packages...
...knows months in advance that a company is planning a stock split or a new bond issue-information Wall Street speculators would love to have. And to foil counterfeiters, it uses special paper embedded with colored disks, mixes its own inks, and even makes its own special presses. Every item is counted and recorded 33 times from raw paper to finished product, and rejects are cremated in blazing furnaces...
Pricing its watches from $6.95 to $39.95 (for a battery-powered electric model), Timex ignored the notion of a watch as a lifetime gift and made it an impulse item. The company preaches that it is almost as cheap to buy a new Timex as to repair an old one, and urges consumers to build a wardrobe of different watch styles, as if watches were shoes. With Timex sales growing at twice the rate of the rest of the watch industry, it is a rare jeweler-and usually a "prestige" one with no need for the business...
...Another item in the report details specific improvements needed in examination rooms. Seymour said that only two of the seven recommendations are likely to meet with trouble--the installation of electric clocks in all the rooms and the rental of portable water coolers where needed. As a reason for his pessimism, Seymour noted the financial expenditure involved...
...tabled item was the suggestion of Lois M. Reiser '64, President of the Radcliffe Government Association, that an "informal association be established between RGA and HUCA. More specifically, she said that RGA representatives should be members of certain HCUA committees...