SUNDAY DEC. 11 1949 Left on 1020 Rocket for Chicago. Rain & mild Merrill and Washburn on train. Went to the Art Institute and saw the Ahrensburg Collection of modern art. which I could not appreciate as well as the Chester Dale Collection also there. With Otto Gressers left for New York at 5. He is Vice President and Comptroller of Commonwealth Edison of Chicago. He is full of ideas for saving labour in accounting. They buy checks with treasurers name already printed on check for payrolls and dividends. "PORT FO BUFFALO" [Pullmans check: Chicago to New York] Also are going to send out their bills on IBM cards size of postal cards prepaid by weight at P.O. the IBM stub returned. Working on electronics for replacing IBM card machines to gain speed. [IBM postal card?]

Creator

• Brown, Theophilus

Language

• English

Identifier

• MS02.01.29.380
• 1949_1_374

Keyword

• diary

Year

• 1949

Date created

• 1949-12-11

Related url

•  https://digital.wpi.edu/show/2n49t5074

Resource type

• Image

Source

• MS02.01.29.380.419

Last modified

• 2023-09-06