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...Rotterdam-Antwerp pipeline, a key conveyor of crude from the supposedly embargoed Dutch port to Belgium, has been pumping as much oil as it did before the boycott began...
...DENIAL of the machine--what price must the nation pay for removing certain men from the assembly lines who once had a purpose in the great conveyor belt of social process--the dignity of being in some small sense midwives with grease on their aprons, unthinking cogs in a linear birth process, yes, but providing indispensable impetus nonetheless for the black tongue belt which spews forth from the belly of the Whale Motor Co. into the bosom of the general public wide track yachts, highway cruisers, gold-plated luxo-boats which drank Arab blood and ferried the rich and damned...
...employees in Peacock's cannery who cut and can the sardines are all women. Standing next to a conveyor belt loaded with fresh fish, they grab the sardines, cut off the heads and tails with a flick of the wrist, and stuff them into the tins. "We've tried using men to pack the fish," says Peacock, "but for some reason they just don't have the stamina. They can't take it for more than a few hours...
...London film magazine Sequence, Anderson often made such arrogantly intellectual pronouncements. The son of an army officer, he was born in Bangalore, India, and educated at public schools and Oxford. Through his Sequence articles, Anderson won the opportunity to make his first short films-industrial documentaries sponsored by a conveyor-belt manufacturer. His first nonindustrial film, a gentle documentary on deaf children made in 1953, won an Academy Award...
...states and Canada, making it the fastest-grow-ing garbage concern in the country. Its revenues reached $51 million in 1972's first nine months. In Pompano Beach, Fla., the company operates an advanced processing plant in which garbage is ground into odor-free shreds and sent by conveyor belt to a nearby landfill...