Word: pushbutton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ignore it most of the summer. At length he will signal the gate-tenders of the great Gouin Reservoir at the St. Maurice's headwaters. Switches will be flicked. A flood of extra water will dissolve the jams and rush the beached wood along on its interrupted journey. Pushbutton logging is here to stay, but the dead yesterday of whiter water, bigger jams, geysers of dynamited wood, is still recalled fondly by a few oldtime draveurs. Murmured one, with fine contempt: "Today, it's like picking flowers...
...most demanding tourist could expect: airconditioning, the continent's fastest elevators (710 ft. a minute), bilingual telephonists and barbers, a Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor, bedsitting rooms furnished with thick English rugs and draperies, and running ice water. Pride & joy of Executive Chef "Lugot of the Waldorf" is the pushbutton kitchen, visible to bife-savoring patrons in all its stainless-steel sublimity through a long window that runs the entire width of the hotel's grill room. Pronouncing Uruguayan beef the equal of Argentina's finest, Chef Lugot undertakes to serve it any style, with...
Last week news of the Boxer operation made fat, sensational headlines (see PRESS). Some dispatches made it appear as if the slow-moving old Hellcats were "guided missiles" (because they were un-piloted); that the age of "pushbutton war" had been ushered in. This jubilation was wildly off the mark. The Boxer experiments were, actually, a patchwork of relatively old techniques, far behind the modern technology of real guided missiles (rocket-or jet-propelled and guided by radar). Ten years ago, in World War II, the Navy itself had successfully used a pilotless plane, controlled by radio and aimed...
Robot Elevators. In Evanston, Ill.'s Washington National Insurance Co. building, Otis Elevator installed an electronically controlled elevator system which, it says, makes self-service pushbutton cars practical in busy office buildings for the first time. Only 2½% more expensive to install than regular operator-run cars, the new system is controlled by an electrical brain which can regulate the elevators in busy morning hours to make a maximum of up trips and, at quitting time, to concentrate on down rides. Riders press a button to start the elevator and select their own floors. Other features: a weighing...
From all over the world, engineers flock to Milwaukee's famed A. O. Smith Corp. to goggle at a machine that is nearly two blocks long. It is the first "pushbutton" factory and, though built 30 years ago, it is still a mechanical wonder. Only 75 men operate the machine as its automatic arms drag in flat sheets of steel, shape, hammer and rivet them, pop them out as automobile frames at the rate...