Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1945 — Page 29

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By RUTH FINNEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—~If you were to type for eight hours, at the rate of 70 words a minute, how far do’ you think your hands would travel in that time? The aflswer is from 12 to 20 miles, depending on the words typed. It's enough to tire anyone. The navy has discovered that with a revised typewriter keyboard, rearranging the letters more scientifically, the 20-mile, stint for the hands is cut to one mile.

. # ® THE NAVY took 14 typists and trained them to work on the new keyboard, early in the war. It found

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‘|that the group gained an average

of 74 per cent in net words per minute; that it gained 28 per cent in gross words per minute. Most important of all, it gained 66 per cent in accuracy. Within “10 days, the group that had been retrained repaid to the navy thé cost of retraining them. Within four months, the total value of increased efficiency for the group amounted to $6718. Mrs. Thelma Price McCarthy, training specialist for*the navy department, was given the Civilian Meritorious Award for this work, done in collaboration with Commander August Dvorak, formerly of the University of Washington, who

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Revised Typewriter Keyboard Developed by Navy -

. Rare students do 72 words a minute on the standard keyboard.

. - » DVORAK rearranged the letters so that the right hand carries slightly more than half the load.

.|On the standard keyboard, most

frequently used letters are on the left. ; - ‘ On the new" keyboard,’ seventenths of the words commonly used are written on the “home” row, where the fingers are placed. Vowels are all placed at the left; consonants are so arranged that right and left hands alternate their strokes in all words. No word could be written with the right hand

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So far the navy has not cashed in on results of its efficiency study.

» » » CMDR. RICHARD PAGET, chief management engineer of the executive office of the secretary, ruled that conversion of standard Dvorak keyboards would not be fea sible during the war since conversion took 8 hours per machine and sufficient workmen were not obtainable. Turnover in personnel was rapid during the war, also increas-

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PARIS, Oct. .5 (U. P.).—Navy Minister Louis Jacquinot announced yesterday that most of the French fleet will soon go to Indo-China to join the battleship Richelieu. The Richelieu and the light cruiser Triomphant arrived at Saigon this

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U.P) = The agriculture department sae nounced yésterdgy that U. 8. tivils ians have been allotted 397,000,000 pounds of canned fish for the 13 months ending next July 1. This is 105,000,000 pounds more than the quota last year, but 100,» 000,000 pounds less than consumed in the average pre-war year, o The department allocated 223,000,» 000 pounds of fish for export, ine cluding substantial quantities for relief feeding, and 92,000,000 pounds

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