Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1949 — Page 14

Ce of $2.8 Billion Payment Expected to Average Per Check; 1500 Machines Used

AS JARSEN: Times Special Writer AS y Dec. 3—In business terminology & “card ~18 one computation or ane sorting performed pn’ one eard v ote business machine. i “It will 9526 billion such ~card passes to figure out the : dividends ‘which veterans get next Jan Loh their GI insurance. The payment ot 324 billion” worth of dividends to 16 million veterans

biggest IL — — staggering - dward 'G. Joseph, a govern. A of its ind A oris ment insurance expert from B8t. ’ Louis who is in charge of the 3200 speoiRlly| jon admits that even he has dif machine opera-|feuity grasping all the details of Are Ingiall the computations performed the job In a!hy the machines.

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Complexity Staggering ~The very size of the job creates some complicated problems which have never before been tackled! Approximately 621,000 vetby business experts. erans named Smith will get re-

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