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...airlines' installment-plan vacation (10% down, up to 20 months to pay) is bringing in new customers every day. Some travel managers object on the ground that it requires more paperwork and hurts future business. Said one Chicago agent: "If you buy a car by installments, you've got something to look at and use. Once you've taken a vacation, you've got nothing left but a memory." But Pan American, by pushing its installment plan, boosted sales $4,200,000 last year, expects that it will top $7,000,000 (6% of all business...
Such reports, and hundreds of others, flow every week into an uncarpeted, buff-walled office overlooking the Hudson River, 32 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. At her plain desk a kindly looking woman with china-blue eyes and a no-nonsense way of handling paperwork sifts the reports, ponders, scribbles notations. On her decisions depends the deployment of a worldwide spiritual army. Her title is appropriate to the task: she is Mother General Mary Columba, 63, of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, head of the U.S.'s biggest, most active Roman Catholic women's missionary...
...Automatic Factory. Businessmen already envision a day when the brains will be used not only for paperwork problems, but to operate factories, to run auto production lines or any plant where a process can be reduced to a preset, repetitive system. Swiftly and obediently, the big robot will start and stop production lines, supervise all the machines, correct faulty workmanship, inspect the finished product, package it and ship it out to U.S. consumers...
Large Print. Manhattan's Mutual Life Insurance Co. last week estimated that it was saving $250,000 a year through a policy of simplifying its paperwork. It began by translating the legal gobbledygook familiar to most policies into English the average person could understand, eliminating most of the "fine print" which has been the butt of many insurance jokes. When a farmer complained of the time he had lost getting a Mutual form notarized, the company discovered that it was needlessly having 75 different forms notarized, junked that policy too, and is saving policyholders $80,000 a year...
...death of his father, a customs official in the old port city of Veracruz, he never got more than elementary schooling, and went to work at 16 as a bookkeeper's apprentice. When revolution swept Mexico, he joined the army and served eight years as a paymaster and paperwork man for generals. After the revolution, he served 13 years as a government clerk, rising finally to the job of chief of the government's vital statistics department. Even in those low-paid years he lived on his salary. Once, when the offer of a bribe came...