Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shopping, the housewife should be able to switch on to the local supermarket on the video phone, examine grapefruit and price them, all without stirring from her living room. But among the futurists, fortunately, are skeptics, and they are sure that remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop-because women like to get out of the house, like to handle the merchandise, like to be able to change their minds. Not everything that is possible will happen-unless people want it. One thing they almost certainly will want is electronic "information retrieval": the contents of libraries and other forms...
...pence, but everyone agrees that the system is a bedeviling bother. It irritates international bankers, confuses tourists and even sends British shoppers away muttering in frustration. To escape from its complicated structure (?2 8s. 6d. for a bottle of Scotch), many Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries are switching to the decimal currency system used by 95% of the world's people. Barbados and other sterling bloc territories in the British West Indies converted in 1955, South Africa in 1961. The Bahamas will switch this year, New Zealand next year. Even Britain is considering a change...
...weekly sailings from New York to Europe with the first of four vessels specially fitted to stack containers in their holds like bricks in a wall. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines is converting two ore carriers for container service. San Francisco-based American President Lines last week announced plans to switch nearly all of its transpacific freighter service to container ships...
...America, we take communications for granted," Jacobs says. "You pick up a phone and can dial anywhere. If you don't like your newspaper, you can switch to another one. In Latin America things don't work that way. Commercial communication often fails...
...ruling not only rattled bankers but riled lawmakers, who saw their authority challenged. Congress moved to reframe the law, but unfortunately the task fell to the House banking committee, which is run as a fief by Chairman Wright Patman, 72. Patman, a moonfaced country lawyer from Patman's Switch (pop. 25), Texas, dislikes big banks, tight money and Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin in about equal degree. Sympathetic to the Supreme Court, Patman stalled the revised bill for 25 weeks. When Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach wrote Patman that he favored a liberalized bank-merger law, Patman just...