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...mine ceiling. The work is tough, grimy, and hazardous. At Inland's mine the roof is supported by long bolts, and the coal is blasted with compressed air. A 35 foot long machine with a giant sword cuts the coal, and another monster resembling a dinosaur, the joy loader, scoops it up and transfers it to a cart. Conveyer belts carry the coal to the tipple for processing. Three strong men in an unmechanized mine can load a ton and a half in 15 minutes; one man with a joy loader handles two tons in 15 seconds...
...because the company had large capital resources. Regardless of the reasons, though, Inland is now competing directly with the truck mines, as only two-thirds of its production goes to company steel plants. Without mechanizing themselves, the small mines will be forced to maintain low8Inland Steel photoA Joy loader in Inland Steel mine scoops up coal. The machine can load two ton in 15 seconds and transfer it to automated cart for transport to conveyer belt...
...blood inside it. To make the blood clot, he needed to get a foreign body into it-such as a hair. And to get the hair in without disturbing the aneurysm, he needed a hair gun. So the Navy made him an air hair gun. It is a muzzle-loader, works on air at 50 lbs. pressure...
...make room for a $150 million government center. While many big U.S. cities are still at the bulldozer stage, Chicago's major surgery is almost at an end; it has completed or nearly finished 26 clearance projects at a cost of $121,500,000. Last week Truck Loader Willie Adams and his family of five moved into Chicago's newest (and the nation's largest) public housing project. After living in three verminous rooms in a rooming house, the Adamses found it a paradise. Said Mrs. Adams: "It's like a dream, only better. Everything...
...French coal miners, whose output is now among the lowest in Western Europe, will soon be operating a cutter-loader machine that can chisel out 45 metric tons of coal per man-day in the shaft. The new cutter-loader and other advanced French mining machinery is being sold to customers in 49 countries, including Britain...