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...British professional men (generally underpaid by U.S. standards), but is only about half what the specialists make. Worst of all, for general practitioners, is their feeling that they are being reduced to the status of medical clerks. Says a Yorkshireman: "The G.P.'s job is to be a sorter and referrer...
...first decisions as president was to assign 20 engineers to work on automating the canning industry, traditionally resistant to technological advance because of the necessity of hand-sorting of foodstuffs. Campbell's engineers devised an electronic sorter for rice grain, another for vegetables. To preserve the reputation for quality of Campbell products year in and year out, Murphy's tasting boards check soups and other foods coming off the production line in Campbell's nine major U.S. plants every hour of the day. At 11 a.m. the manager and his executive assistants at each plant pause...
...computer-and every paper-laden company-has found a powerful ally. Scanners already read and process insurance premium notices, gas station bills, travelers checks, dividend checks. The National Biscuit Co. has cut the time for tallying inventory from a month to three days with a scanner, and a scanner-sorter being tested for the Post Office Department can process letters five times faster than by hand...
...kept in individual cages. They stick their heads out to feed from a continuously filled feed trough, turn around to a drinking fountain, drop their eggs on the inclined wire floor. The eggs roll outside through an automatic counter onto a conveyor belt that takes them to a human sorter who puts them in boxes. Another conveyor belt takes away the droppings. One man can easily take care of 7,000 birds with an output of 4,000 eggs a day. Outside each cage is the laying record. When this drops, the hen goes to the stewing...
...going into the U.S. postal system, shuffles a mountain of mail so that each stamp faces in the right direction, then postmarks and cancels 500 stamps a minute, double what a man can do. Next November the Post Office will get a 75-ft. long P-B mail sorter by which twelve operators each can sort 720 letters a minute-triple the manual rate. Each letter passes on a conveyor belt before the eyes of a postal worker, who pushes keys to direct it to one of 300 cubbyholes. Now P-B's scientists are tinkering with the ultimate...