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Pots & Pans. Such machines take months to design, months more to make. Because of their special uses, they cannot be mass-produced. Even such standard products as milling machines (see cut), which bore, grind and shave metal, are virtually handmade. Cincinnati Milling turns out only ten or twelve a week. Tool builders are beset by shortages of such components as bearings, valves and clutches. Said one New England toolman: "You hate to see a machine standing there, all completed except for a lousy little electric starter. You not only can't deliver it to the man who needs...
...Pauls record wherever they happen to be. They carry the recorders with them on their road tours, and send batches of recordings to Capitol Records for pressing and distribution. Says Paul with a grin: "We grind 'em out like hamburger...
...detective squad room of a Manhattan station house. The room swirls with traffic: hoodlums, crackpots, mouthpieces, sharpies; the meek, the mulcted, the outraged. The detectives, unlike those in Hollywood's endlessly filmed games of cops & robbers, look like real cops under the strain of a tough, often nasty, grind; they grumble, sweat and suffer...
...four-mile grind, the Yale varsity was favored to win, but the Crimson scored the "upset" that so many expected. Both crews started at 32 and then dropped to 31. After the half-mile Yale started to creep ahead, but just before the two-mile mark the Crimson caught them...
...four-mile grind, the Yale varsity was favored to win, but the Crimson scored the "upset" that so many expected. Both crews started at 32 and then dropped to 31. After the half-mile Yale started to creep ahead, but just before the two-mile mark the Crimson caught them...