Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyer, unable to mail necessary papers to the courthouse, telephoned the judge who was handling his case and explained what he wanted to do. Then he called the opposing lawyer, who in turn called the judge to confirm receipt of the message. In Paterson, N.J., police divided up a stack of court orders and delivered them in patrol cars. "The absence of mail is vexatious," said Passaic County Judge Vincent Duffy, "but it won't stop the courts. Thank God for the telephone and the automobile...
...they pulled off a safe distance, about a mile from the ship. Inexplicably, no other boats joined them, which meant that 15 men were still aboard, including Captain Donald Swann. An hour passed. Then the astonished men in the lifeboats saw smoke belch from the Eagle's stack, and the freighter took off at its top speed of about 19 knots. Some thought it had to be a bad joke. Only a few surmised the real truth: the Columbia Eagle had been taken over by mutineers; the abandon-ship signal had been a ruse...
...Bell people's commonplace explanation for all the trouble is that the system is overloaded. When more than 20% of the phones on an exchange are in use at the same time, the dial tone is delayed as calls stack up like planes over an airport. Planning ahead to avoid such overloads is the essence of efficiency and probably management's single most important function. The tangle in the New York telephone system today offers a case study in what happens when a company gets its number wrong...
There is the constant drone of some amplified speaker, and there is the drone of my little huddled affinity group, and the same beautiful girl keeps walking past trying to hawk the same stack of unbought Ailitant magazines, and she is adding her own drone...
Meanwhile, however, graffiti pads were successfully installed in the two stack elevators...