Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Computation Laboratory has announced that it is seeking six to eight graduate students to participate in a work-study program involving the use of the laboratory's three calculators...
...same area. A freshman would then be advised that he can satisfy his general education requirement in his advanced placement field either by a lower or upper level general education course or by any departmental course in that area. The student with advanced placement in English can use, therefore, the course time he obtains when liberated from a lower level humanities requirement to study more literature than he could otherwise...
...factory service, goes even farther, has a battalion of 2,000 servicemen in its 160 U.S. branches, estimates that they make 40,000 calls weekly and service some 10% of all RCA television sets in U.S. homes. Relieved of the expensive burden of service, the franchised dealer can use his capital to buy in bigger lots at lower prices, and win back some of the competitive edge he has long given away to discount houses...
DETROIT'S SOFT SPOT this year will be sales of heavy-duty trucks, i.e., more than 19,500 Ibs., which are off 11%, will total about 197,000 for the year. Makers point to tapering off in industries that use big trucks - home building, cement, aircraft...
Skipper Ludwig, a long, lean, lone-wolf operator who speaks softly and seldom, sailed to his riches through heavy seas. Born in South Haven, Mich., he started as a marine engine mechanic in his teens. At 27 he bought a small surplus oil tanker for use in the East Coast trade. When it blew up accidentally in 1926, Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers...