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Word: conveyor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into four days at Mavrino a dozen parallel lives are laid. The characters are borne along on the conveyor belts of terror. They are tormented by problems of conscience, and by the knowledge that if they make the morally right choice?to support a friend, to oppose a foolish order?they will be crushed in the machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE WRITER AS RUSSIA'S CONSCIENCE | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...them gently onto cars carrying them to kilns for baking. General Motors employs a robot to move heated steering linkage rods into forging dies. Ford uses one to paint engines, while robots at Corning Glass Works pick up dinnerware after it has been decorated and put it onto a conveyor belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Robots Are Coming, The Robots Are Coming | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...mine, stranding the 15 on a lifesaving ledge. The unlucky ten working at the source of the flood were presumed to have drowned. Boreholes were drilled from the surface to the lucky 15, through which rescuers lowered hot coffee and food; after five days of entombment, they rode a conveyor belt out of the mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Virginia: Resurrection at Hominy Falls | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...Mitch Mitchell on drums. Their music, when Jimi pauses to concentrate on it, is a whirlpool where the currents of Negro blues and psychedelic rock meet, and it churns with all but overwhelming power from their nine amplifiers and 18 speakers. But it is no more than a conveyor on which the high-riding Hendrix projects his anti-personality: wild, woolly and wicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Wild, Woolly & Wicked | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...speed and efficient routing, vertical and horizontal conveyor belts will move materials through various departments. The lowest office floor, 87 ft. above wide granite walks, will rest on a base pierced by arcades, which lead into a three-level lobby where a TIME-LIFE library and a gallery and exhibition center will be open to the public. The building, scheduled for partial completion and occupancy next year, adheres to Louis Sullivan's principle that architectural form should follow human function. In a broader sense, the building is designed not only for our Subscription Services staff but for the needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

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