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IBM was established in the state of New York on June 15, 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. (0) . The U.S. Census Bureau knew its traditional methods of counting would not be adequate for measuring the population, so it sponsored a contest to find a more efficient means of tabulating census data. The winner was Herman Hollerith, whose Punch Card Tabulating Machine used an electric current to sense holes in punch cards and keep a running total of data. Capitalizing on his success, Hollerith formed the Tabulating Machine Co. in 1896.
(8). The combined Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., or C-T-R, manufactured and sold machinery ranging from commercial scales and industrial time recorders to meat and cheese slicers and, of course, tabulators and punch cards.
Thomas J. Watson joined the company as general manager in 1914, when the diversified businesses of C-T-R proved difficult to manage. Watson boosted company spirit with employee sports t
[填空题]Yesterday’s skepticism was based on ignorance of the law of economic growth,and today’s assurance____________________ (反映了人们对经济本质的误解).
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The culture industry did away with yesterday’s rubbish by its
own perfection, and by forbidding and domesticating the amateurish, although it
constantly allows gross blunders without which the standard of the exalted style
cannot be perceived.
66. ______.
Nevertheless
the culture industry remains the entertainment business. Its influence over the
consumers is established by entertainment; that will ultimately be broken not by
an outright decree, but by the hostility inherent in the principle of
entertainment to what is greater than itself. Since all the trends of the
culture industry are profoundly embedded in the public by the whole social
process, they are encouraged by the survival of the market in this area. Demand
has not yet been replaced by simple obedience. As is well known, the major
reorganization of the film industry shortly before World War I, the material
prerequisite of its expansion, was precisely its deliberate acceptanc