At the rate of 600,000 a day, the old age benefit accounts of 26,000,000 workers are being entered and filed away in the huge, musty Chandler Building, right on the edge of Baltimore Harbor. Day and night the gloomy structure bustles with 2,300 employees and the eerie, rhytmie tik-klik of $1,-500,00 worth of electric tabulating machines.
It's those machines wich carry the load. Without them, the Social Security Act would have been impossible. Its administration would have sunk under its own weight. The very proposal of a national program would have been swept away in a loud guffaw.
As a bookkeeping job, there's nothing like it anywhere. In England, where there's social security ( for far fewer persons) the accounting is done by hand - and the work occupies spare equivalent to two London blocks.
The next biggest to this is only 7 per cent as large. It's the office control of the German railroads, all operated by the Reich.
