Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frustrating Task. More scow than ship, the 24-year-old Pueblo seemed singularly unsuited for her mission. Her wheezing boilers could deliver a maximum speed of only 13.1 knots. The ship's steering mechanism was worn out. Bucher's initial duty was to supervise the refitting of Pueblo from an Army freighter into a first-class, electronic spy ship. It was a frustrating task...
...additional speed of the Harvard Computation Center's new IBM 360/65 is not needed, and IBM computers frequently do not work, some professors and graduate students in the Harvard Computing Center claim...
...many ways, the most successful modern American industrial enterprise is International Business Machines Corp. Its primary field, high-speed data processing, is barely 20 years old, but IBM has risen to rank among the ten biggest U.S. companies, with 1968 sales of $6.9 billion and profits of $871 million. With a reputation for excellent technology, marketing and servicing, it dominates the computer business at home and abroad. The company's smoothly aggressive and generously rewarded salesmen have captured about 74% of the U.S. market. Investors value IBM's prospects so highly that its 112.7 million shares are worth...
...first disposable diaper in the late 1950s, but it flunked its market tests because the retail price of 10 ? was simply too high for mothers -who make an average of eight diaper changes a day. The problem was then turned over to production engineers, who devised a high-speed, block-long assembly line that brought the price down to 5½?. That is considerably more than the cost of buying and home-laundering a standard cloth diaper-which works out to an average 1 ½? per change -but within competitive range of the 310 or so typically charged by pick...
...impressions are drawn together out of the subconscious and the memory to collide with the fresh sensations of the present. The logic must be pieced together from the wreckage. In recording this poetic traffic accident, what must be remembered is that it's not the speed that kills, it's the impact...