Word: forklift
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...just before the lunch break. All work on a Curzon Street building stopped as the construction gang peeled off shirts and spread-eagled across the masonry for a sun tan. On English docks from Liverpool to Southampton, 14-man gangs of stevedores can be found idly following the forklift trucks that replaced them. When a British company proposed to check up on workers who had been out sick more than 25 times a year for three years or more in succession, 500 men indignantly went on strike...
...minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother to get out of their cabs. After the style of U.S. aircraft carriers, Henrion keeps track of his men by dressing foremen in beige overalls, wine handlers in red, mechanics in brown, bottling-machine attendants in blue, and forklift truckers in yellow...
...London's docks, a forklift and three men can accomplish as much work as a 14-man gang once did; dockworkers have accepted forklifts, but still insist that the 14-man gang follow each truck around...
...hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using the fuel cell to produce electricity aboard a one-man submarine, and Allis-Chalmers is using it to power experimental spot welders, golf carts, tractors and forklift trucks...
...large lawns four times as fast as power mowers. More than 85% of all buyers order a mowing attachment with their tractor; after that, they may choose other accessories that blow away or plow snow, roll and aerate lawns, haul logs, sweep driveways, bull doze dirt, and even forklift heavy loads. Inevitably, luxury optionals have been introduced: cigarette lighters, headlights for nighttime mowing, can opies and padded seats...