Word: keypuncher
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...that educators scarcely know what to make of it all, let alone how to get it taught; next week's scientific discovery can make last week's textbook obsolete. Even future vocational demands are unpredictable; not long after Los Angeles vocational schools developed a program to train keypunch operators, new machines came along to make the keypunch-and the operators-superfluous...
...letters as they arrive at "540." One machine stamps the envelopes, another counts them into bundles of 100, still another slits them for easy opening. In the case of a subscription order, all the necessary information is put on to a set of I.B.M. tabulating cards by a keypunch machine. The subscriber's name and address appear in printed form on only one of the cards, and the address sticker which is glued to the copy of TIME each week is copied from this card. This is done on a facsimile machine, a fantastic electric eye device which "reads...