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...rude wooden shacks and prosperous brick houses ten miles south of the DMZ on the banks of the Cua Viet River, one vital North Vietnamese objective was spiked by the tanks of the tough 20th Armored Squadron. As the Communist spearhead rolled south on Highway 1, the 34-ton M-48s of the 20th sped north. They met-and stopped-the Communist armor a scant 300 yards north of the Cua Viet bridge. The tankers and two companies of South Vietnamese marines held the bridge long enough for it to be blown up by an American adviser. "Those outfits...
This may seem like absurd duplication, but the Chinese today are less interested in rationalizing their resources in an economic way than in developing industry and self-sufficiency. The results of this urge to do it themselves are often impressive. At the Shanghai Shipyard, for instance, 10,000-ton freighters are being constructed on berths originally designed to hold ships one-third the size. By using automatic welding machines to prefabricate sections and then moving the sections into place with Chinese-designed cranes, the yard has cut building time on a ship from one year to seven months...
...even more impressive example of China's industrial leap forward is the Shanghai Automobile Factory, which produces two-ton trucks and the Shanghai model sedan. There is no assembly line. Clusters of workers carry pieces to autos being assembled, which cranes then move along to another pile of parts in the factory. Last year the plant turned out 2,900 trucks and only 500 cars, in accordance with a quota set by the First Ministry of Machine Building. The cars, though, look well made and appear to be assembled with tender loving care. By American standards the styling...
...Vonnegut fantasy? No. Several companies are engaged in research to make just such a machine. Now Garrett Research & Development Co., a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, claims that it has solved the technical problems and is ready to build a 50-ton-per-day demonstration plant in San Diego County. The project depends on whether or not the county and the Federal Government will ante up the $3,000,000 necessary to build the plant...
...plant, Garrett says, a ton of garbage could produce about 480 Ibs. of oil (plus 160 Ibs. of char, 140 Ibs. of magnetic metals like iron and 120 Ibs. of glass), or about $6 of usable material for each $5.50 in operating costs. Independent experts are skeptical about these cost figures, but a garbage converter would be valuable even if it does not operate at a profit. San Diego County, which is weighing the pyrolysis experiment, presently produces 3,500 tons of garbage per day, spends $12 per ton to collect and haul it to the dump, and like most...