The first issue of Think -- an IBM employee and customer magazine that features
articles on such wide-ranging topics as education, science, art, and international
relations -- is published.
IBM holds its first training class for women systems service professionals in
Endicott, New York. Ruth M. Leach, who becomes IBM's first female corporate vice
president in 1943, was a graduate of this class.
IBM markets the first commercially successful electric typewriter, the
Electromatic. IBM would produce electric typewriters until 1990. Also brought to
market are a gang summary punch for alphabetic accounting machines and the
automatic carriage.
A new plant in Milan, Italy, is completed.
Survivor benefits are added to employee group life insurance.
