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...profits from the sale of expensive gas pipe. Two American firms are also looking for a share of the construction contract: Caterpillar Tractor hopes to get as much as $1 billion worth of business for road-building and pipelaying equipment, and International Harvester sees potential sales for compressor-station components...
...plant outside Turin, the Italian firm of Digital Electronic Automation is trying out its first new Pragma A-3000. The $110,000 robot, which has just been licensed by General Electric, is assembling a compressor valve unit from twelve separate parts. Its two arms can do totally different jobs at once. When it picks up a slightly defective gasket in its gray steel claw, it immediately senses something wrong, flicks the gasket to one side and picks up another. The Pragma produces 320 units an hour, without mistakes, and it can labor tirelessly for 24 hours a day. That makes...
...motorists sought refuge in Ritzville. Schools and churches were turned into shelters; 81 people slept on the floor of Perkins Restaurant, and many families took in strangers for a night or two. On Tuesday morning Adams County Sheriff Ron Snowden let 75 motorists try to drive out, after a compressor at the firehouse was used to blow the cars' air cleaners free of dust. Only 20 made it. Twenty-five returned to Ritzville. The rest were stranded on the highway and had to seek refuge at a rest stop. During the worst of the storm, cars could run only...
...mail a 326-page compendium of OSHA regulations-the advance warning of federal scrutiny. No member of the ten man staff had time to read it. When the OSHA inspector arrived, he disallowed a grace period and fined the owner $60 for not having a guard on a compressor belt used once a year. The area's education agency, created to replace the school superintendents of eight counties, has ballooned into an aggressive bureaucracy of far more people than all the old county offices put together. The agency has hired a flack, is promoting itself with the legislature...
Muffled Bellow. By contrast, Europe is far ahead of the U.S. in noise abatement. Two years ago, Baron imported a muffled air compressor from Germany. With a well-honed sense of the dramatic, he demonstrated it beside the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Though the machine did not operate sotto voce, neither did it bellow. One U.S. manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand, was sufficiently impressed to start producing a similar line of quiet compressors (from $30 to $4,500 more expensive than the unmuffled varieties...