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...surface." After the broadest survey yet on automation's markets, the American Society of Tool Engineers reported that automation will account for 18% of metalworkers' equipment orders this year. In the aircraft industry one-fifth of all money spent for equipment this year will go for pushbutton machines; one-third of the automakers' 1956-57 equipment orders will be invested in automation. Among the items on U.S. industry's automation shopping list: 25,000 welding machines, 55,000 grinders and finishers, 200,000 machine tools...
...TIME produced an excellent summary of the race for the "ultimate weapon" [Jan. 30]. It frightens me to speculate on what can happen when the pushbutton pushers get something to push...
...accurate, dependable, invulnerable, long-range missiles that had been so freely predicted did not appear. The late Senator Brien MacMahon, then chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, summed up the situation in his famous remark about pushbutton warfare. "All we have now," said the Senator, "are the pushbuttons...
...ways to cut manufacturing costs. Throughout 1955 the price of labor rose steadily and material expenses edged up. A few passed on their costs to retailers; but most looked for other solutions. One good way to cut costs was by automation, and U.S. businessmen busily installed new pushbutton machines to produce everything from auto engine blocks to electronic printed circuits. To make carbon dioxide, Liquid Carbonic Corp. spent $1.5 million for a new, completely automatic plant in Oakland, Calif, in which two highly skilled technicians produce as much as was formerly turned out by 50 men. At the start...
...Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania had brought him a new tractor and deep tillage plow. It was a handsome pair. The 47-h.p. tractor, in fire-engine red and cream yellow, was the first 1956 model off the assembly line of the Cockshutt factory at Bellevue, Ohio. Equipped with a pushbutton radio for standard and short-wave broadcasts, a cigarette lighter on the dash, hydraulic controls, the tractor would retail for $4,000. Commenting that "two-thirds to three-quarters of my top soil now is in the Atlantic Ocean, or somewhere between here and there," Farmer Ike asked...