Word: cordwood
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...furnace room of Herculane-um's suburban baths, the cordwood is stacked, ready to fuel a fire that has been cold for nearly 20 centuries. On the wall of a snack bar, some graffito artist has daubed a phallus and the words MA(N)SVETA TENE (Handle with Care). In a cereal and wine shop, jars brimful of beans and, chickpeas await the next customer. At a street crossing, the inscription on a pillar warns litterbugs that they can be jailed or fined...
...brag. When the 100-ft. vessel put into Jamaica's Montego Bay last fall, the skipper invited some local sport fishermen aboard. Modestly the Japanese apologized that a mother ship had carted away most of their catch. Then they threw open their lockers. There, stacked like cordwood, were the carcasses of thousands upon thousands of game fish: yellowfin tuna, wahoo, sailfish and blue marlin...
...Just Cordwood. An old story to most big U.S. industries, automation is still a source of pride and wonder to the packers who are using it to transform basic operation. The biggest change has come about in in the production and marketing of processed meats --51;sausages, hams, frankfurters and lunch meats- which account for about a third of the total market. One machine, for example, can now grind out 30,000 hot dogs an hour, all of a uniform weight and length for better cost control. Another, guided by computer punch cards, can chop up huge chunks of meat...
...major profit growth. Processed meat, they say, can be produced more cheaply than the fresh variety and pack aged with a distinctive brand name to attract the eye of the housewife. "When we sell fresh meat," explains A.M I Economist Allen Johnson, "we often say we are just selling cordwood...
...upstart company that has successfully applied the new technology to this cordwood is four-year-old Iowa Beef Packers of Denison, Iowa Already highly automated, Iowa Beef in November will open a new plant in Dakota City, Neb., that will apply a complete assembly line to beef cattle The carcass will be put on a moving assembly line the minute the animal is slaughtered. In quick operations, the hide will be yanked off, the entrails and carcass dropped on separate conveyor belts and every part claimed by different workers along the line. Such imaginative techniques already in use have given...