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...continuous coal miner that can eat into a coal seam at the rate of 4½ feet per minute, mine eight tons of coal in the same time (see cut). Two boring arms bite into the coal, cut it into small pieces and carry it by conveyor belt to a waiting cart. Joy, with 300 older continuous miners in operation, says its new giant will carve out twice as much coal as the older models. Even before the new "Twin Borer" could be wheeled onto the floor, an Indiana producer snapped...
...most solid base for the new enthusiasm and optimism of cement men is President Eisenhower's proposal for a $101 billion, ten-year state and federal highway program. It is the biggest reason why they are ordering enough rock-crushers, conveyor belts, tube mills, rotary kilns and other equipment to boost the industry's capacity by about 30% in the next five years...
Automatic Hamburgers. K. M. Jesse, president of the Floating Henryburger System (38 hamburger stands in twelve states), has developed an automatic hamburger cooker. The hamburgers are shaped by hand, then loaded on a conveyor belt that automatically carries them through the cooker, dips them in sauce, turns them out at the rate of 480 an hour. Price...
...airstrips between airplane and terminal, Whiting Corp. has installed a new, covered loading platform for passengers and luggage at New York International Airport. After the planes land, they are taxied onto trucks on sunken tracks, then towed by an electric winch until flush with the terminal landing and permanent conveyor belt for baggage. Price: about...
...passenger conveyor belt is the latest example of the canny diversification that has kept Goodyear at the top of the industry. Last week Goodyear brought out its nine-month earnings report, and though sales were down 14% (largely due to a seven-week strike) from 1953's record $1.2 billion, profits of $32 million were good enough for the company to declare an extra dividend of $1 and a 2-for-1 stock split...