Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heerwego: You'll have to move on out, my friends, before the big crane with the big steel bell moves on in--and SMASH...
...throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home sound-movie camera, 19) paper clothes, 20) self-lighting cigarettes, 21) a pocket-size phonograph, 22) a gyroscopic stabilizer for hand-held cameras and binoculars...
...every way it was a wonderful foot race. In at least one way it told more about the 1960 Olympics than any other single event. For nearly three laps, the winner-a hawk-nosed, crane-legged fellow with a familiar, loping stride-stayed back with the pack in the i.soo-meter race. Then, with disheartening ease, he moved past the leaders and began to draw away. Rounding the last turn, he saw his coach waving a white shirt as a signal that he had a chance to break his own world record of 3:36. Thereupon Australia's Herb...
...Army needed a giant ditchdigger. Barber-Greene Co. built one: a voracious behemoth that can dig a continuous trench 2-ft. wide and 6-ft. deep through any surface, including rock and coral, is now available to commercial purchasers. Le Tourneau Inc. of Texas built a mobile island crane that can be towed out to an offshore construction site, its legs sunk and anchored while it does its job. The job finished, the legs can be retracted, and the island crane towed to another site. Not all products are so complex-or necessary: a harassed doctor invented a candy-coated...
...increasing sales from $218 million in 1916 to more than $2 billion in 1957; following a series of strokes; in Bethlehem, Pa. Valedictorian and baseball captain at Lehigh University ('99), Grace turned down an offer to play professional baseball to join Bethlehem Steel as a $1.80-per-day crane operator, in 1956 was the nation's highest-paid executive, with $809,011 in salary and bonuses. Though bitterly attacked by union labor leaders for his own high pay and for his unflinching battles against the closed shop in the 19305, Grace at the same time pioneered employees...