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...receiving a $300,000 inheritance, so he ran up bills of more than $150,000. Still waiting for the inheritance, he is now spending almost half his income to pay off under an extended plan at $3,100 a month. In Los Angeles, Kenneth Breckenridge, 42, a mail sorter, and his wife Genevieve, a teacher in the Head Start program, found themselves paying $1,178 of their combined $1,450 monthly income to clear up credit bills. Says Breckenridge: "I found credit hard to resist even when I didn't need it. Beneficial Finance would send me something...
...Earlier this year, an automatic mail sorter went haywire in a large Midwestern city with the result that eastbound mail was sent west. Several hundred thousand pounds of mail were shipped before the error was discovered...
Shunted to the proper slot of a mechanical sorter, letters wind up in one of 279 bins representing major U.S. postal zones...
...equipment will make possible the maintenance of two files on checked out books, one for information, the other for handling returned books and sending over-due notices. The set will consist of a collator, a sorter, two key punches, a verifier, and a reproducing punch, all operated by two or three people...
...students when the Houses they have applied for have no more vacancies, and so forth. Given this information and a solution to the first problem, Oettinger calculates, the actual writing of a program for the University's 7090 computer, or setting up the plug-board for a mechanical card sorter, could be done "by anyone." (He considers the choice between the sorter and the 7090 computer, like that between cards or tape for recording information, a relatively unimportant technicality. "Machine operating time in either case would be only 15-20 minutes...