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...check-out counters that customers got their pleasantest surprise. As they filed past the bank of 18 cash registers, their purchases were put on a soo-ft. conveyor belt leading underground to the five-acre parking lot outside. Car owners simply drove to the belt unloading point, presented their numbered sales slips, and had their purchases loaded into their cars. The new supermarket's first four-day total: 170,000 customers, more than $200,000 in sales...
...Indianapolis plant cut its space from 6,400 sq. ft. to 3,600 sq. ft., nevertheless managed to increase the volume of goods handled from 36 million lbs. to 97 million lbs. by installing fork lifts, hydraulic jacks and portable conveyor units, while trimming its receiving department from eleven men to eight...
...Derbyshire coal-mining town, but the folk of nearby villages called it "happy Creswell." It boasts a model village housing development, a crack shooting team, a brass band famed for miles around. Its mine, reputed to be one of Britain's safest, is equipped with up-to-date conveyor and ventilation systems. Output per man-shift is two tons, nearly double the national average...
...Creswell's mine at 4 a.m. one day last week a fire broke out 1,000 ft. below ground on one of the newly installed rubber conveyor belts. Of 99 miners in the area, 19 crawled to safety, 80 were trapped. Said one who got out: "The men in our party who lagged behind, crawling on their hands and knees, were dragged along by others...
...million), primarily as a device to stave off inheritance taxes which would have shaken the family's hold on the company. Dollars kept clinking into the foundation's vaults as fast as Ford cars rolled off the assembly lines. So far only $27 million of the conveyor-belt income had been passed out, and the trustees had called in a special committee of scholars to tell them how to spend the rest to best advantage...