Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assembly-line conveyor belt, moving parts momentarily interrupt strategically placed jets of air shooting across the belt. The interrupted air jets, connected to the control jets of a fluidic circuit, cause power streams to flow and stop, opening and closing valves. The valves in turn activate automated pneumatic machines that process the passing parts...
...called the New Vaudeville Band. Ed Sullivan put them on his show when they arrived in the U.S. on tour recently, and Johnny Carson grabbed them for a Tonight stint. Even Walter Cronkite, who heard that the seven-piece band was appearing in a New York borscht belt hotel called the Pines, chased upstate after the boys on the day after Thanksgiving to do a bit on them for his news program...
...other city of only six square miles now being asked to digest the NASA project with 42 acres, the Kennedy complex with 12 acres, and--if it must be--the Inner Belt with oodles of acres?" Crane asked...
...streams of the U.S., there has been some progress. In a process now being established in Houston and three other cities, tin cans and other ferrous-metal objects are separated magnetically from other wastes. Rags, paper, plastics and aluminum, wood and rubber are hand-picked from the conveyer belt, each for assignment to reprocessing and recovery. The remaining organic material is "cooked" and deodorized to produce fertilizer. The object in view is that each city will become a closed loop-like a space capsule-and completely reuse all the water and solids that pass through the system...
...decision on the Inner Belt from the State Department of Public Works is expected within a month...