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Cash & Collars. IBM was created by Thomas John Watson Sr., who built it into the 37th ranking U.S. manufacturing corporation, and in so doing, carved out an American business legend for himself. Watson, who believes that "nobody really gets started until he's 40." worked for Dayton's National Cash Register Co. until 1914. Then at 41, he suddenly pulled up stakes. Going East to Manhattan, he went to work for the Computing-Tabulaing-Recording-Co., which in 1911 had begun making new kinds of time clocks, butcher's scales and accounting machines...
Ever since the battle of Narva and Pskov in 1918,* when the Bolsheviks won their first military victory, Feb. 23 has been Red Army Day in the U.S.S.R. Last week the Red army celebrated its 37th anniversary with the customary pomp but with special significance: for the first time since Narva and Pskov, its top officers hold highest political jobs...
...home county of York, a Republican couple named their newborn baby George Leader in his honor. (Leader, who cut his own 37th birthday cake the day before, wired the infant: DEAR GEORGE: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS SOME DAY HOW HONORED AND PLEASED I FELT...
Debonair in a silk scarf and herringbone topcoat, and physically not fading at all, General Douglas MacArthur who will be 75 this month, left his 37th-floor apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers to commute by limousine to his job in suburban Connecticut. As Remington Rand Inc.'s $68,600-a-year board chairman, MacArthur makes two or three such trips a week. In his fourth year of retirement as a soldier, he is seldom seen, presumably spends much time in the towers with his family and his memories...
...Despite concessions to the workers, labor productivity is "insufficient," said the Soviet's Master Planner, Maxim Saburov, at the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution. "Many works and factories are not working rhythmically." Absenteeism runs as high as 25%. The remedy: "The further tightening up of labor discipline...