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With this purchase went: 1) new conveyor-belted production methods which can produce a ready-to-assemble house in 25 minutes and will soon cut that time to 15 minutes; 2) a national dealer's organization; 3) the services of Gunnison Corp.'s kinetic, genial founder-president, Foster Gunnison, 47. A onetime illuminating engineer who lighted Manhattan's Rockefeller Center and Empire State building, Gunnison got into prefabricated housing with the financial backing of a fellow alumnus of St. Lawrence University, Owen D. Young...
...word strike was long taboo in its columns). When the engravers' union became so strong it had to be dealt with, the Bulletin set up a separate engraving company. To this day this company, in an adjoining building, sends the Bulletin's cuts over in a conveyor...
Champ. In Shelby, Mont., Louis Hillebrand's false teeth dropped into a conveyor at a refinery, two days later bobbed up in another part of the factory savagely clenching a beet...
...Troubles. Ever since the first contract was signed, there has been plenty of hell but little production around Permanente. Hundreds of construction workers jostled with hundreds of production employes trying to handle highly explosive magnesium dust. Once a conveyor pipe broke and caused an explosion which killed a few workers; again careless builders hooked on to a hydrogen line instead of an air hose, blew themselves skyhigh. Atop everything else, the newly designed three-story electric furnaces were constantly on the blink because the terrific heat (4,000° F.) melted vital parts...
...Landing stages are nearly awash from the weight of iron and steel products ready to be shipped north or south, when fat, white side-wheelers pull up, conveyor belts immediately move incoming cargo to freight trains paralleling the river, while sunburned, sweating dockers fill up the space with outgoing materials...