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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Post Office: Taking the Mail Out of Politics | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

Shunted to the proper slot of a mechanical sorter, letters wind up in one of 279 bins representing major U.S. postal zones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Faster Sort of Mail | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IBM Machines Replacing Girls | 1/14/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: The Computer College | 11/28/1962 | See Source »

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