As BEN FRANKLIN SAID,"Time is the stuff that life is made of." He was simply restating what man has known as far back as memory can reach. Time is life's most precious ingredient. It is, in fact, all things to all people. In the world of business, minutes mean money. In the world of science, time has delivered the answer to many difficult problems. What we are and how well we succeed depends on the use we make of time. But time also can be dangerous. Miscalculated, it can cause disaster and death.

In the year 1880 every town and hamlet in the U. S. had on a different time standard, determined by the "sun time" of its particular location. There were 50 different "times" in use by the various railroads. Amidst all this confusion, faulty timing caused a series of disasterous railroad accidents. The need for railroad men to have accurate timepieces was painfullyevident. Two remedies evolved. A standard time plan was adopted and the four time zones--Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific--were established.

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