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...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...
Time Saver. With $6.50 worth of scrap metal, Marvin E. Brown, a mine foreman for Birmingham's Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., invented a new coal-handling device. The company found that the invention, an angled leg for the conveyor belt, saved two-thirds of the time ordinarily required to shift heavy conveyor pans used to carry coal from the working face to mine cars, eliminated the need for knocking out mine props while the conveyor pans were being moved. For the gadget, the company last week paid Brown...