Word: scans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electric Brains. Before the changeover, cross-country telegrams coming into stations on paper tape were pasted on blanks, sorted by hand, then retransmitted. Now the relaying is done by "electric brains" which scan each message for a routing symbol, then speed...
...over Mexico last week, pickpockets, adding a hyper-modern wrinkle to their ancient profession, did a booming trade among crowds gathered to scan the skies for plativolos (flying saucers). For the saucer-hysteria that still flickers occasionally in the U.S. was sweeping Mexico...