Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grinding noise began the morning after the presidential election, emanating from the sixth floor of the Justice Department as the Conveyor-400 paper shredder started up. The giant machine is reserved for destroying highly sensitive documents -- not just shredding them but turning them into powder. "It made a terrible racket that went on for 2 1/2 days," says Rita Machakos, a paralegal who works nearby. She had never seen so many records destroyed...
...WASN'T THE BEST OF jobs. Chopping and cooking chicken parts for Imperial Food Products was monotonous, relentless work, but , the company's largely black and female employees in Hamlet, North Carolina, were grateful for it -- until that awful day last year when a hydraulic line that ran the conveyor belt ruptured and sprayed flammable fluid that ignited, incinerating 25 employees. Horror swiftly turned to outrage when it was learned that the high death count was the result of illegally locked plant doors and the absence of a sprinkler system...
...Donut Robot dispenses doughnuts from a conveyor belt at the rate of 24 dozen an hour. To make the 80 or 90 dozen doughnuts that Harvard consumes each morning takes nearly three hours...
Sooner or later, we always seem to wind up back in the candy factory. You remember the scene: Lucy and Ethel go to work on a candy-wrapping assembly line. A conveyor belt feeds them chocolates at a ridiculously fast clip. They try desperately to keep up, frantically stuffing the candy into their blouses, hats and mouths before the supervisor returns. A comedy classic...
Spradlin operates a shuttle car, ferrying four tons of coal from the face of the mine to a conveyor belt. The monotony of the job is numbing. "It's like a yo-yo, all day, back and forth, all day," he says. Sometimes he is two miles within the mountain. Often he kneels in mud and water. He has worked in low- seam coal, a claustrophobic 29 inches from the mine floor to the roof. To eat his dinner, he has had to lie on his back. To relieve himself, he squats in one of the myriad byways. When...