Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fisheries has opened a pilot production line in Moscow to try it out. Located in a corner of a large fish processing plant on the banks of the Moscow Canal, the line is a 60-ft. stretch of stainless-steel tanks, plunging pistons and gurgling agitators, ending in a conveyor belt that delivers small jars labeled CAVIAR-PROTEIN-FRESH. Although the facility turns out only 440 lbs. a day, bigger plants are on the drawing boards...
Fitzsimmons said that some people feel the certificate is "offensive" and "overdone," but it shows, he added, "that we are not running a conveyor-belt operation here...
...with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal a minute; then their clawlike arms sweep the coal onto conveyor belts. The most efficient underground mines have "longwall" machines that continuously shear the coal vein, much as a delicatessen slicer cuts salami...
...blue denim for everything from jeans to auto-seat covers is running high, and corduroy is also moving briskly. Home-furnishings sales, which have been impeded by the slowdown in housing construction, are beginning to show some life, especially in sheets, towels and draperies. Industrial textiles, such as conveyor belts, air-conditioning filters and awning fabrics, are selling poorly, but even they are expected to pick up next year as the economy moves into higher gear...
Ford's professor, in fact, professes no particular ideology, though he is a Republican, and chooses not to whisper his own views into the President's ear. "The cause I push is a kind of elevated common sense," he says. Goldwin prefers to act as distiller and conveyor of the ideas of others. He has good credentials for that role. A native New Yorker who fought with the U.S. Cavalry in World War II, Goldwin graduated in 1950 from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He spent the next nine years editing reading materials and training...