Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edition on the street. It was a good, thick paper (four sections, 48 pages), with plenty of color comics, plenty of advertising, plenty of local news on Page 1. The Zanesville News plant was modern and complete, cost $250,000. With latest photographic and engraving equipment and brand-new unit tubular twin-12 presses, it was capable of printing the News in color throughout. Trucks were ready to deliver it daily and Sunday to every home in Muskingum County. And thorough Earl Jones was prepared to spend money to put it over...
...ground view of the landing field, with a plane coming down to land. The passengers watched the screen idly, then suddenly came to life. "That's us," someone shouted. It was. Plane and image landed neatly together, taxied toward the apron, where the NBC-RCA mobile unit was parked with its roving eye televising the whole business...
...business, got ready last week to build 300,000 sq. ft. of new floor space. In California -at Inglewood, San Diego, Hawthorne-North American Aviation, Consolidated Aircraft, Northrop, planned new buildings. Newest centre of U. S. aircraft's effort to reach the stature of a mass instead of unit producing industry is Detroit, where 27 companies have been officially approved as parts suppliers for war planes...
...assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up on botched work, missing parts. Harassed Dodge bosses were up against a new flowering of an old technique-the slowdown. After Dodge fired 64 union sloths, then refused to reinstate them, every second unit slid untouched past key workers. Union girls refused to touch De Soto arm rests on a parts assembly line-because, said the management, girls further up the line had not paid union dues. By management orders, Dodge shut down. At week's end, all Chrysler Corp. plants in the Detroit...
Most widespread innovation for 1940 are the Sealed-Beam headlights on 95% of the models (result of cooperation between the industry, lamp & lens manufacturers). Lens, bulb and reflector are sealed into a single unit. The new lamps light the road without blinding. Another big development is the "Hydra-Matic" drive (see Oldsmobile), which dooms the clutch pedal, lets the accelerator control...