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...announced the most painful cut of all. To speed up the flow of machine tools to the rest of the Communist bloc, he explained, East Germany's much ballyhooed aircraft factories are to be converted to making such workaday goods as hydraulic equipment, cutting-and-forming tools and conveyor belts...
...their customers happy as well. From any of Goodbody's 39 branches outside New York City a customer's order is teletyped over A.T. & T.'s Finac network to the home office, where an operator puts it into one of the variously colored grooves in a conveyor belt to route it to the right clerk. Within minutes the order is telephoned to one of Goodbody's brokers on the Exchange floor. On normal trading days a buyer in Palm Beach can have his order executed in New York and get notification within five minutes. At Goodbody...
Like many a U.S. businessman who regarded automation as an effortlessly efficient conveyor belt to future savings, the U.S. Post Office is discovering that the automated ride has its bumps and grinds. The first automated post office, costing some $20 million, went into operation after Thanksgiving, in Providence...
...American's is designed to speed and pamper the often delayed and neglected air passenger. Instead of wrestling with swinging doors, the passenger enters the building through an 89-ft.-wide opening, which has an air curtain to keep out the weather. He puts his luggage on a conveyor, which speeds it on and off the scales, scoots it to the baggage area. Six 12-ft. electronic boards flash the latest flight information...
...climbed the meat counter for a better view, ignored the butcher's outraged order to stop tenderizing his chops, was finally brought down by a rolling block from the butcher himself. Still another duty-bound photographer hurdled the baby-stroller of a startled matron, landed on a moving conveyor belt, and aimed his camera as the belt carried him relentlessly toward the checking stand. "Somebody stop this thing!" he yelled. "It's wrecking my shot!" Farther across the store, in the midst of the cascading canned goods and shattering glass, a woman shopper shook her head in awed...