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Along this conveyor belt the stapled magazines now move to the mail room where subscribers' copies are addressed automatically on a mailing machine from a strip of names, listed by state and city. Then the magazines are put into mail bags; bundles are made up for newsstand shipment. Less than 24 hours after TIME has gone to press, it is on its way to readers all over...
Point Four is not, as critics of the program claim, a one-way conveyor belt to have-nots: nations that participate must do their share of the financing, and of the labor. Nor does it have to be imperialistic: the State Department has promised to keep business out of foreign governments' affairs, pressure from the National Association of Manufacturers notwithstanding...
...roofs either. Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
Last month, Saunders' one and only Keedoozle in Memphis went kerplunk. In eleven months Saunders had lost $170,000. Said he: "Keedoozle was too much for the average mind to comprehend." Besides attracting too few customers, it cost too much to run the calculators and conveyor belts...
With his new guarantee, Joe will ship to Naples this month $25,000 worth of U.S. trucks, generators, power saws and conveyor belts. Later on, he will go over himself, to install the equipment and hire extra workers (with 75 nephews in Naples, he anticipates no manpower shortage). Before long, he expects to get 1,000,000 stones a month from the quarry (v. 9,000 now), and gross $60,000 a year, 40% of which will go to his brother & sister...