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March 22, 1953

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Push-Button Banking Is a Reality, But System Standardization Lags; PUSH-BUTTON BANK ALREADY A REALITY

By George A. Mooney

" Push-button banking" is already a reality in suburban New York. Use of electronic equipment in some banking procedures of course is not new. At the County Trust Company in Westchester, however, virtually all of the regular banking routines are now performed automatically. The single major exception, the handling of commercial checking accounts, exists only because the bank has not obtained the additional necessary machines.

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Notable Births

Kenneth Rogoff

1953Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess grandmaster[โ€ ]

Kenneth Saul Rogoff is an American economist and chess Grandmaster.

Historical Context for March 22, 1953

In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[โ€ ]