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...operator pushes buttons alongside the standard typewriter keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
...typical command, of which the drum will hold 4000 in sequence, might read: "select the Number in A-1 and add to it the Number in B-2 and put the sum in C-3." Such a command can be given and the work accomplished by the computing section of the machine every four thousandth of a second...
...assembly, ran the state campaigns in 1936 and 1940. He supported Ohio's Bob Taft last year, was later peeved by Dewey's do-nothing campaign. He insists, however, that he will be neutral on the job: "The chairman's job is to elect candidates, not select them...
Then the Copa called, and two month ago RCA Victor admitted Mindy to it select list of popular singers. Her firs sides, One More Time and Twelve O'Clock and All Is Well, got good reviews. Tw Hollywood studios have started preliminary screen tests...
...temple nominated him for Imperial Outer Guard, which is the first and only contested place in the Shrine's national hierarchy (candidates spend large sums on favors like fountain pens and tie clasps, and set up many a drink). Once in the hierarchy, called the Imperial Divan, the select and exalted nobles move up automatically one position each year until reaching the Imperial Potentateship. Lloyd was defeated for Outer Guard the first year; the next year his rivals withdrew, and he was unanimously elected...