Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roofs either. Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
Last month, Saunders' one and only Keedoozle in Memphis went kerplunk. In eleven months Saunders had lost $170,000. Said he: "Keedoozle was too much for the average mind to comprehend." Besides attracting too few customers, it cost too much to run the calculators and conveyor belts...
With his new guarantee, Joe will ship to Naples this month $25,000 worth of U.S. trucks, generators, power saws and conveyor belts. Later on, he will go over himself, to install the equipment and hire extra workers (with 75 nephews in Naples, he anticipates no manpower shortage). Before long, he expects to get 1,000,000 stones a month from the quarry (v. 9,000 now), and gross $60,000 a year, 40% of which will go to his brother & sister...
...novelty of watching Macready drop a couple of men in their tracks like deer in Sherwood Forest, Allegro is notable for only one thing. It was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, whose sensitive work in a current minor thriller called The Window entitles him to something better than such conveyor-belt assignments...
Yaleman Stewart, who succeeded his father as president of the A.C. & Y., got his transportation know-how by building his road into one of the most successful short-line carriers in the U.S. Last year it netted about $1,000,000. His conveyor belt, he thinks, will do even better. To finance it, he has already lined up backers who will put up the $210 million construction cost, and take bonds which Stewart hopes to pay off in 20 years. Stewart intends to start building his conveyor in a year, have it running in three...