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...offset press units, only four were ready; and those four, now taxed beyond capacity, began to falter. About 15 miles away, in General Electric's Information Processing Center, an electronic computer, programmed to read and sort the Journal's classified ads at high speed, transmitted indecipherable intelligence over the telephone tie line. A crew had to be hastily recruited to set ads by hand. Then there were not enough compositors left to cope with the late news. The midnight copy deadline came and went, unmet...
...part of a long-range program to offset the growing shortage of engineering and applied science teachers in the United States, the Foundation distributed $2.3 million this year to 42 universities...
...surface, an Eastern-TWA union seems sensible because TWA's East-West routes could offset seasonal fluctuations on Eastern's North-South runs. But TWA has two heavy handicaps: it lost an estimated $15 million last year, and it is 78% owned by eccentric Howard Hughes, who, though he was forced by financiers last year to put his stock in trusteeship in return for a loan of $165 million, can still stir up a lot of turbulence...
Apparently intending these adornments to offset his central theme and prove that life has at least two sides, Author Rosten has ended up with a novel that suffers from cute appendicitis. Captain Newman, M.D. is really two books, intertwined like medicine's caduceus, at its best considerably better than The Snake Pit, at its worst a fun-house chortle hollowly echoing See Here, Private Hargrove...
...product that could compete with European industry." The nearest thing to unanimous opposition to the Kennedy program was heard among businessmen in the South - partly because much of the South's burgeoning new industry moved there to escape high wage costs elsewhere and fears that lower tariffs will offset any gains they made by moving...