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...some 50 jobs, from billing to cost analysis. Meanwhile, the paper has just put in automatic, three-a-minute plate casters that promise to save the paper $325,000 a year and 35% of the man-days employed in the current stereotype process. Other newspapers have installed sophisticated conveyor-belt systems, and many have automated mail rooms. Papers are planning to use their computers for management studies, making out payrolls, for sorting and setting classified...
...processing installation of its kind in the world. For each incoming order, it determines in a few thousandths of a second if the item is available, computes the total price and shipping charge, prints instructions to the warehouse, and readjusts inventory. Quelle also installed a complicated packing and shipping conveyor operation that can be run from central control panels, can handle 150,000 packages...
...partnership is the Norfolk & Western, which runs coal directly to port out of the rich Appalachian fields. In operation at Hampton Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos: giant rotary dumpers empty four railroad gondolas simultaneously...
With more than 16,000 of his monographs in circulation, Mallery has become the nation's most skilled conveyor of one teacher's technique to another. With fresh teaching tips pouring in from all over the country. Mallery plans new monographs focusing on geography, choral music and anthropology. "I'm not terribly thrilled about the typewriter," he says. "But when I see something in teaching that deserves a push, it's a pleasure to push...
...leave that until later, going first to the dehydration rooms. "Better take off your jacket;" he grinned, "it's pretty hot where we're going." We were taken into a very large room with grotesque orange lighting that made us look like a jack o'lantern. We noticed several conveyor belts passing into and out of the room through openings in the walls. Mr. Whiteside pointed out that it was unbearably hot, and we agreed that it was with little hesitation. These are infra-red heating lamps," he told us, "temperature of 88 degrees. Dehumidifiers keep the moisture down...