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...long in advance, since industry is operating well below capacity; 2) there is less pressure to buy now as a hedge against future price rises because inflation is less of a threat. More and more firms are gearing their inventories more closely to sales by using computers to make speedier sales projections. Computer projections have enabled one division of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. to get along with 10% less inventory...
Core of the Standard brand of salesmanship is service, backed by a research budget of $2,000,000 a year and a staff of 142 engineers. Though the basic principle of the sprocket aligner is unchanged, Standard regularly redesigns its accessories to suit new and speedier business machines. Five of the company's engineers are on constant tour helping salesmen to work out customers' problems. If none of the 50,000 sample forms in Standard's files suit a customer's needs, the company's staff of 36 designers will create...
...front-page issue, the Administration was already committed to a program which it believes would enable business to raise expansion capital without increasing prices. The Kennedy program would give businessmen 1) a credit against the corporate income tax based on how much they spend on modernization, and 2 ) speedier depreciation write-offs of the cost of industrial equipment...
...programmer must often spend days reducing the elements of a problem to numerical or electronic code before he can hold even a brief conversation with his machine. To remedy this, at least half a dozen U.S. corporations have been trying to develop a machine that can communicate in a speedier and simpler language-pictures. Now Itek Corp. of Lexington, Mass., a relative pygmy among electronics companies, hopes to grow bigger with such a device, which it calls...
...underline his contempt for U.S. public opinion, President Sukarno, then sent his air force chief of staff to Moscow. There he urgently requested speedier delivery of Soviet jet planes, subs and a battle cruiser so he could get on with the "liberation" of West New Guinea...