Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shorter Pipeline. In quick time he and his carefully selected staff junked the outdated system of stockpiling millions of items without much regard for inventory costs, obsolescence of models or parts. In its place they aimed at shortening pipelines from manufacturers, installed carefully scheduled air-and sea-lifts and huge computers (including the encyclopedic UNIVAC), tied their depots and control points with a network of electronic transceivers that punch cards automatically with orders...
...steadily improving Bach Society Orchestra presented last night a program of two Mozart concertos and shorter works by Purcell and Walter Piston. During parts of the concertos, there was still a raggedness and lack of decision which should be worked on; but much of the concert showed careful rehearsing and playing, and some sections of the Piston Sinfonietto were marked by the kind of precision and balance that has made the orchestra in previous years among the finest performing groups at college...
...sees a vision of atomic-powered submarine tankers loading up from pipelines linking island interiors to the coast, then hauling their cargo under the ice to European markets. Equally visionary was Deputy Minister Gordon Robertson's suggestion to build an ocean pipeline from Ellesmere Island to Europe-a shorter distance, he pointed out, than Interprovincial pipeline spans between Edmonton and Toronto. Said Robertson: "It would be the wildest folly and the grossest arrogance to say that these things will not, in due course, be quite possible. The 'Far North' is far from us, but it is close...
...boom, A. T. & T. is a vast, sprawling creature of wondrous efficiency. Since war's end, it has hiked its take on each U.S. phone from $5.25 to $8-while managing to cut long-distance rates between New York and Los Angeles from $4 to $2.50, and on shorter calls in proportion. Much of that money has gone into $19 billion for plant investment and new equipment, on which A. T. & T. now stands to cash in with dramatic earnings gains...
...Deering, with 21 points, led the Yardlings, who controlled the backboards throughout the game and took advantage of fast breaks for most of their scoring. The Crimson had very little difficulty using a man-to-man defense against Andover's shorter quintet...