Word: colmol
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...even the most mechanized mines -is not new. Since war's end at least six companies have secretly developed models. Joy Manufacturing Co. actually went so far as to announce the results of a private test of one (TIME, April 5). But Sunnyhill's mechanical mole-the "Colmol"-was the first to back up its claims with a public demonstration...
Among the designers of the Colmol was Sunnyhill's 37-year-old President Clifford H. Snyder, who started in business with a $75 second-hand truck. He now runs a company that grosses $25 million a year. Along with Co-Inventors Arnold E. Lamm, Sunnyhill's executive vice president, and V. J. McCarthy, a coal man of Youngstown, Ohio, he built a prototype of the machine around an old army tank, worked out the bugs in a company warehouse, that was guarded day & night...
...Colmol thus combines two operations-breaking and loading-which now require separate crews and machinery. It also eliminates two chief mining dangers-cutting and blasting. One of the problems it creates for mine owners is that it turns out coal too fast (up to 1,000 tons a shift) for mine elevators. Faster ways-perhaps conveyor belts-must be devised to carry the coal to the surface...
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