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Baltimore, Md. A coding system, which eliminates all vowels and some consonants and reduces the remaining letters of the alphabet to groups designated by six master, or key, letters is employed in the Social Security Board Records Office. The [...]ing system was adopted as a "foolproof" methods of keeping track of names, whether or not misspelled by their owners in subsequent correspondence.  The system also is of great value in simplifying many of the mechanical operations necessary to set up and maintain individual wage record accounts for the millions or workers covered by the Social Security Act. the photograph [above shows](?) workers in the Records Office coding names of [applicants]

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