Word: units
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...products and long patience." Ericsson's laboratories are famed for their imaginative designs-among them the "thinking" switchboard (which automatically repeats a call a little later if the first try gets a busy signal) and the Ericofon, a telephone that has earpiece, mouthpiece and dial all in one unit. Ericsson's salesmen have spent as long as six years in a new country making their pitch and landing their first contract. Each year the company brings nearly 100 foreign engineers to Stockholm to train them in the use of Ericsson equipment...
...control the Guard in their states during peacetime. To woo them, McNamara was well prepared when he arrived in Hershey. After warmly shaking hands with every Governor in sight, McNamara read a speech pointing out that the reshuffling of the Guard would cause a decrease of only 295 units from the present total of 4,336. Only 16 of the 2,428 armories, he promised, would be left without a unit. And, on the sorest point of all, he noted that the proposed manpower cut of 33,000 would not be too difficult to achieve since the Guard loses...
...many states, the Guard is primarily a small-town operation that serves as both social center and employer. Georgia estimates that a 100-man unit brings in $52,379 in federal pay and allowances every year. Says Major General George J. Hearn. Georgia's adjutant general: "The Guard is a kind of livelihood for boys in the country and in small towns." More than that, the Guard armory is often a town's most impressive edifice, and a social mecca of food sales, high school graduations, civic meetings and basketball games...
When one of the 6,500 transistors or 45,500 diodes in the machine's control unit fails, a duplicate component takes over instantly. A few thousandths of a second later, the machine has diagnosed its own ailment and an electric typewriter starts clacking out a coded description. A maintenance man-one humble surviving human in a world of strong-minded machines-looks up the code in a 1,290-page dictionary written by a computer. There the maintenance man finds instructions telling him which part needs to be replaced. He need not ask what the part does...
...Piece of Change. Major and his assistants are totally geared to the mass market; most of their homes sell for $10,000 to $20,000; they work on nothing less than 50-unit projects. To his builder customers. Major offers all or part of a package that begins with buyer surveys, ranges through land planning and house design, and ends with Major staffing the development's sales office. For his services. Major charges up to $200 per house sold. Builders find the fee well worthwhile...