Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total surplus vote was almost 2,000, so any alteration in the number of ballots validity cast changes the particular surplus votes then selected for transfer. If the ballots are ruled valid however, Watson will drop his request...
Secret Chuckles. Throughout the U.S., several hundred newsmen spend 30 to 35 generally dreary hours each week watching TV as part of their jobs as critics. They reach an impressive, if not impressionable, newspaper readership that rivals in number the legion of comic-strip fans. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby is syndicated in more than 90 papers, the Los Angeles Mirror-News''s Hal Humphrey in 87; in San Francisco...
...road crews and yard crews, thereby allowing full interchange of labor without duplicated effort. ¶ Eliminate firemen's jobs on diesels and other non-steam locomotives in freight service and switchyards to realize a saving of $200 million a year. ¶ Allow management only to stipulate the number of required crew members. ¶ End rules requiring idle stand-by operating employees when self-propelled equipment is used and eliminate multiple crew changes on short-run trains...
Union leaders challenge the railroads' charge that featherbedding costs $500 million a year, making it impossible for the rails to compete with taxfree, government-built highways, airports and waterways. They also contend that the number of rail workers has declined by 500,000 in the past decade, despite freight traffic increases...
...Gamma 60 line. The Gamma 60s, coming out in January, are the last word in "simultaneous" computer design, are as far ahead of the Gamma 35, says Callies, as a pipe organ is ahead of a flute. Costing $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, depending on the number of components used, the 60s can make 10,000 additions, 3,333 multiplications, 1,666 divisions and 10,000 mathematical decisions each second. One part of the computer even acts as a foreman, assigns work to other parts as they finish their tasks. Thus the machine can handle scores...