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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ofcertain equipment covered by pen-and-ink stockrecords, and the adjustment was not so easily ef-fected. The contrast in the two methods is obvious. But full fire-loss coverage is only one item among the benefits of Burroughs stock records. For ex-ample— The machines make no mistakes in figuring. Theydo not post items to the wrong side of the account.The records are always up-to-date. With Burroughs Bookkeeping Machines ledgerclerks do nothing but post. Their work is provedcorrect by another group of clerks with BurroughsCalculators. These machines are also used to figurethe extensions in reducing quantity items to moneyvalue. Burroughs Machines, used in connection withCadillacs stock-keeping system, saved approximately$6,000 a year in their operating speed and madepossible a consolidation of work that released fiveposting clerks for other duties. Cadillac knows, at any moment, what is on handboth in number of units and in money value; what isbeing used and where; what is on order.
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Here are some of the Burroughs Machines in operation keeping Cadillacs stock records correct and up-to-the-niinute. MACHINES FOR EVERY BUSINESS 108 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 20,1920 (Continued from Page 104) being in hiding, the commission had appliedto the university and to the higher schools,calling upon volunteers among their pupilswho would be willing to take charge of thegroups of soldiers to be sent out. Our youngfriend, being a pupil of the Petrograd Com-mercial College, had volunteered for thisservice, and had not so far experienced anydifficulty with the men of his command. I have dwelt at such length on the ap-parently immaterial details of these occur-rences because they shed much light notonly on the general mentality of the Rus-sian peasant soldiers, which so strangelycombined truly Sadie lust of murder andtorture applied to their regular officers withgood-natured acquiescence in the occasionalleadership of mere university students andeven school boys, but also o

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