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...Million Bet. Union strip-mines the oil-bearing rock in high butte country, then transports it by conveyor belt to the new retort. Crushed to small pieces, the rock is rammed upward in the six-story-high retort by a huge piston, meeting a stream of fire-fed gases that distill out shale oil at a rate of about 30 gal. per ton of rock. The raw oil is carried by truck to Union's Brea, Calif, plant...
Assembly-line women, conveyor-belt men Settle down in push-button homes...
...destroys the potency of God-given foods." When the guide meekly suggested that beer actually was 90% water, Norwood obviously saw this only as "a trick of Satan to delude the public." In the noisy bottling house, as the cans and bottles rattled and banged through a maze of conveyor belts, a Baptist voice was heard above the din: "This canning process shows the genius of man to produce a product, and the cleverness of Satan to deceive our hearts and minds...
...connoisseur-since taking over. He had big, dramatic dreams for the New Haven that sometimes made his more conservative officers nervous. He proposed, for example, to replace the present mainline rolling stock with low-slung, highspeed, articulated Talgo trains (he has already ordered three), and to string a moving conveyor belt along the tracks between New York and Boston to carry less-than-carload freight. But for all his energy, ambition and ideas, McGinnis made his passengers feel like galley slaves...
Moving Sidewalk. The first passenger conveyor to go around corners was demonstrated by the Robins Conveyors Division of Hewitt-Robins Inc. The flexible rubber belt is also the first conveyor designed to move passengers in two directions at once. Hewitt-Robins will install 1,406 ft. of moving sidewalks (for $234,704) at the Dallas Airport...