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...Faulty construction of various departments has resulted in extremely unsatisfactory conditions . . . enormous losses from waste and breakage in construction ... the conveyor branch is not working due to the fact that several departments have been only partly completed...
...cheap silk ribbon is used as conveyor belts from two small electric generators to two 2-ft. copper spheres mounted on glass rods. The ribbons pass into the spheres through slits and over pulleys on cams within the spheres. At the generators, from copper brushes, the ribbons pick up small charges of electricity, one ribbon positive, the other negative. Entering the copper balls, the electric charges are taken from the ribbon (silk is a less good conductor than copper) and stored on the balls' copper surfaces. Large voltages accumulate quickly as the ribbons whiz through their slits, silent...
...free port in the harbor, conveyor belts are sending thousands of sacks of wheat, grain from last year's bumper harvest, into the holds of British, Japanese, French, and Italian ships, from the huge elevators of the Soviet grain trust. Half a mile away men are falling unconscious on the streets from lack of nourishment...
...James's machine, ready for sale last week, is an endless conveyor set on end. The motorist runs his car into a cage. Gates shut and electricity raises the cage notch by notch until another cage reaches the street level. The present parker holds 24 cars in a double stack reaching, with motors and hoisting wheels, 100 ft. high. Ground space is 16 x 24 ft., approximately the size of a double garage...
...shipload of German spies and U. S. draft-dodgers. In 1925, when the aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date, destined soon to be scrapped. She will die with her head up. Last week the Navy Department announced that the Rochester's seamen, with the Rochester's equipment, had won the Battle Efficiency Pennant...