CORPORATIONS: International National

To businessmen the world over, the products of National Cash Register Co. are as familiar as Coca-Cola. National machines tot up their bills, figure the payrolls, keep charge accounts straight. They are operated by Eskimos in the Arctic Circle, by Fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa; they are packed by llamas in the Andes, by camel cart in Pakistan. And the machines ring up sales in shillings, drachmas, piasters, kroner, yen, francs and even Russian kopecks.

Though National sells its products in 92 foreign countries, President Stanley Charles Allyn thinks that it still has worlds to conquer. Last week he set out to...

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