Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vocal impulses in the wording of a command are not delivered just right, Elektro may apparently disobey. In Pittsburgh last week the robot made nice publicity for himself by disobeying his master. His designer, Engineer J. M. Barnett, practicing signals for reporters, ordered him to raise one arm. Instead he started walking backward, kept on walking backward even when commanded to stop by the engineer, who grew a little excited-and still less careful of his phrasing. Elektro might have backed through a wall had not Robotmaster Barnett shut off his supply of electric power...
...Carlton then adjourned the meeting to count the Flatto proxies. At 5 p. m. he announced an adjournment to the following day. Next day, as officials continued to dig through the Flatto proxies, the meeting was adjourned until this week. By this time Western Union's management, harried by Flatto threats to challenge every one of their proxies, diagnosed the most serious stockholders' revolt in their 88-year history as a "disease of the times...
...Owns One") likes to picture in advertisements of its expensive automobiles. A perfect piece of type casting for the days when Packard catered exclusively to the carriage trade, Alvan Macauley last week stepped up to the board chairmanship. His successor: Vice President and General Manager Max M. Gilman...
...Norris J. Clarke, vice president in charge of sales, and Charles M. White, vice president in charge of operations, were elected directors of Republic Steel Corp...
...M. Kendig, vice president and treasurer, was made president of Hamilton Watch...