Word: loaders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...