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...flock to Milwaukee's famed A. O. Smith Corp. to goggle at a machine that is nearly two blocks long. It is the first "pushbutton" factory and, though built 30 years ago, it is still a mechanical wonder. Only 75 men operate the machine as its automatic arms drag in flat sheets of steel, shape, hammer and rivet them, pop them out as automobile frames at the rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Industrial Radicals | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...probably contains the least-force humor of the issue. David McCord's dissertation on Kieller's Marmalade and Nathaniel Frothingham's wistful complaint about Governor Dever's Great New Highway System are pleasant if you happen to be interested in marmalade or roads at the time, but both drag terribly on route...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...more fears of starving the next day; and that they can feel that the money they earn is really trustworthy. Before, the money they earned in the morning might be worthless in the afternoon. Also they didn't know when a Kuomintang officer would suddenly come along and drag them into the army, leaving their families to starve. (There is no military conscription at present.) I have gone to various villages, and although the little children often have dirty faces, they seem fat enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter From China | 4/25/1951 | See Source »

...stomach felt funny. My neck swelled, and my ears felt hot. "By God!" I thought, "I'm going to drag that skunk from his Cadillac and push his face...

Author: By William J. Lederer commander, | Title: Bill Learns How to Pull Leg Of Cadillac Driver at Harvard | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

...care much for traveling. I like home." But on the court Beverly is all business, takes quiet pride in the fact that she is the only player in big-time tennis who can shift hands for each shot: "I play a gambling game, looking for quick winners. Why drag a match out for two hours if you can get it over with in 30 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Queen? | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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