Word: conveyors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although mourned by grateful thousands all over the world, "Doctor Charlie" was known as the co-organizer of America's most streamlined medical factory rather than as a practicing physician. To millions of Americans, the Mayo Clinic, with its staff of 160 top-flight physicians, its swift conveyor-belt system in which invalids, nameless but numbered, are shunted from consultants to specialists to surgeons, has long been known as the Supreme Court of condemned patients. To thousands of forward-looking physicians, the 50-year-old Clinic, which long ago initiated group practice and dispensed with family doctors, stands...
...ever fall low enough to compete with concrete. Rubber is vulnerable to oil and sun, so scientists have developed rubbery synthetics like DuPrene which are not. Such new products as Goodyear's Pliofilm and Goodrich's Koroseal are beginning to threaten Cellophane as packaging material. From rubber conveyor belts (Grand Coulee Dam has one 10,000 ft. long), the industry expects to make millions. Other developments: acid-resisting tanks, sun-resisting paint...
Handed baskets as they enter the building, customers help themselves, carry the goods to a row of counters where clerks tally the purchases, take in the money. Then the baskets are placed on conveyor belts, which carry them to the entrance. There the goods are sacked, carried to the customers' cars by red-capped attendants -Trading Post's only concession to service. President Sowles's "Fashion Avenue'' is strategically located in the area between the cash registers and the entrance, so that the customers have to stroll by the five little shops...
...Stakhanovites' were receiving twice and thrice the wages of other workmen. In plants we visited the directors were all men of between 35 and 40. The average age of the workers was between 23 and 27. The best organization seemed to be in factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than in the United States. About a quarter of the workers in all factories we visited were women who appeared to be doing exactly the same kind of work as men. The youth of the Soviet workers and engineers and managers...
What aroused official wailing about the Gorky plant was its dismal slowness of production. Declared the Communist newsorgan Pravda: "In general the conveyor belt is paralyzed five to six hours daily because of defective parts or supply of accessories." To the Gorky plant went a Pravda correspondent to investigate. For some minutes he watched the line of half-finished cars gliding serenely past. Suddenly the line stopped. "What is wrong?" he asked. Replied the foreman, "We have no horn to equip the next machine on the conveyor." After a half-hearted search lasting 30 minutes a worker dawdled up with...