Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity has a tactful way of wording it: the TV show called Blues by Bargy appears "at various hours" during the week. Tall, limpid-eyed Singer-Pianist Jeanne Bargy, 27, describes her eight months with CBS more bluntly: "I'm a fillin. Whenever they have an odd quarter-hour or when someone is sick, they get in touch with...
...need to know how much of each kind of employment and production is needed, and how expenditures need to be allocated among various groups of consumer goods and investment categories," he said...
What about timing? Can the mathematician, with the help of large-scale computers, help us to make intelligent choices and avoid alternate periods of boom and bust? Computers can, Waugh said, to the extent that they will help us to foresee the probable results of the various economic policies up for consideration...
Leontief illustrated a situation in which the new device could have been of great service. If the necessary information had been available, he said, one could have determined the rates of surplus imports of various commodities which would have been required to raise the domestic output of Marshall Plan countries from given original levels to prescribed higher levels over a stated period of time...
More than 4000 16-digit numbers, plus 4000 "commands" for carrying out the various operations of the machine, can be put on these nine drums. The drums revolve at speeds up to 120 revolutions per second and the magnetic spots move by the recording and play-back heads at speeds greater than 150 miles par hour...