Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British aircraft industry gave up any immediate hope of turning out the best conventional airliners in the world. It left that to the U.S., which in wartime had concentrated on bombers and transports (easily convertible to commercial use) while Britain bore down on fighter production. Instead, the British, who had led the world in developing jet engines, put their brains and money to work on jet transports, which they hoped would some day make current U.S. airliners obsolete...
...conserve space and expense, the rooms in the new building were made as small as practically possible, but efficient designing and placing of the modern furniture has made use of all available floor space, and the result is living quarters as comfortable as older, larger ones, and which are more convenient and easier to to clean...
Another new feature of Mark III, and one of the outstanding advances in the development of automatic-controlled computing machines, is a specially designed "coding box." The purpose of this device is to speed up the process of translating mathematical symbols and operations into a "language" the machine can use...
...means of the "coding box," an operator can feed a problem into Mark III in a fraction of the time required by Mark II and any other calculating machines in use at the present time. Very complex problems that used to take days and weeks to "code" for the machine can now be prepared almost as quickly as an operator can punch the keys...
...making their plea for aid, however, the Spanish students made it plain that they have no use for the largest international student group, the International Union of Students, which states that it has 54 member organizations representing 3,000,000 students...