[ARC5] 70+ year old errors

[Jim Haynes]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, J. Forster wrote:

> "Shipping" unfinished stuff was/is very common.
>
> I consulted for a smallish local company that made high end computer
> graphics hardware.... $100,000+ in 1975 dollars. Near the end of every
> month, they would put nearly empty chassis into shipping boxes and onto
> the loading dock...  just to 'meet the numbers'.
>
That's something like a certain computer company that would load as
much product as they could onto trucks and for one day drive them
around the city.  Then bring them back and unload the trucks and
resume normal activity.  The reason was that the state had an inventory
tax, based on the inventory you had in-house on that one certain day
a year.