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...Which transfers Vari-Typed copy to a zinc plate and then to a rubber roller which prints it, thus eliminating metal type and the costlier flat-bed press which small papers ordinarily...
...garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
...Zinc & Freedom. When Deakin's men tried to rally the strikers, addressing them with the traditional dockers' salute of "Eh, brother?" they retorted: "Down with Deakin," or "We're not fighting the government but we want our rights. Where's our freedom now?" In 1941, they had bartered a little freedom for a little more "security": in return for a guaranteed minimum weekly wage, they had accepted a penalty clause. Now the clause chafed. It had required only a small flash to set off a rebellion...
...spark had been the matter of eleven dockers and a cargo of zinc oxide. The eleven had refused to finish loading the cargo last month without more pay. They said, with more anger than truth, that the zinc oxide turned them blue. Penalties for the stoppage (including loss of seven days' pay) were clapped on them. The eleven-and many another docker-thought the penalties grossly unfair. Communists eagerly sniffed their opportunity...
...annual convention in Manhattan last week, the American Newspaper Publishers' Association looked over a room full of new labor-saving printing gadgets. Among them: a Fairchild photoelectric engraver that made cheap cuts of plastic in a fraction of the time required for the present zinc engraving. If VariTyping could be combined with a quick and cheap engraving process, then the newspaper of the future might be "printed" without printers. The publishers voted to spend $280,000 for research on new printing processes...