Word: conveyors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of building engines the old expensive way by sending men off to stockrooms for each part, Wright now puts everything on conveyor belts to move engine parts to the workers, as in the auto industry. The line, said Hurley, who learned his business as a top Ford production executive in Detroit, takes up 42% less space than the old way, cranks out engines twice as fast at two-thirds the cost...
...brick plant in Livonia, Mich, one day last week, the second shift had just filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder's torch ignited an oil-soaked conveyor belt; suddenly flames leapfrogged from one drip pan to another. After that said Foreman Floyd Davis, everything "went up like a torch...
Tough as coal's problems are, they are not insurmountable. High freight costs can be reduced by technology. As long as four years ago, for example, Ohio's Riverlake Belt Conveyor Lines, Inc. was ready to spend $210 million on a 130-mile overhead conveyor belt to carry coal from Ohio River mines to West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania steel plants, thus cut freight costs in half. But the required state legislation has not yet been passed. Coal can be transported in other ways, e.g., by converting it into electricity near the mine site, by converting it into...
...moves with the precision of a metronome. At home in Houston, she issues household instructions to her domestic staff at weekly meetings. A fitful sleeper, she keeps a notebook on her bedside table, makes frequent midnight notes on her "planned life." Her office appointments are lined up on a conveyor-belt schedule. Her double-handled calfskin bag, which she carries everywhere, is a special efficiency container which she designed for her business papers, her purse, and a Book of Common Prayer...
...York Herald Tribune, decided the time had come to read NBC-and telecasters in general-a lecture of what's wrong with their news programs. Said Crosby: there is a "basic lack of understanding of the purpose of communications, which is, after all, just a conveyor, not an end in itself." Today's narrator, Dave Garroway (kittenishly billed as a 'Communicator") had "the most magnificent array of communications equipment ever put into one room . . . telephones, television monitors, telephoto machines, intercoms, wireless. Everything was 11 set in case anything was happening anywhere." But, for the telecasters, "nothng...