Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champ. In Shelby, Mont., Louis Hillebrand's false teeth dropped into a conveyor at a refinery, two days later bobbed up in another part of the factory savagely clenching a beet...
...Troubles. Ever since the first contract was signed, there has been plenty of hell but little production around Permanente. Hundreds of construction workers jostled with hundreds of production employes trying to handle highly explosive magnesium dust. Once a conveyor pipe broke and caused an explosion which killed a few workers; again careless builders hooked on to a hydrogen line instead of an air hose, blew themselves skyhigh. Atop everything else, the newly designed three-story electric furnaces were constantly on the blink because the terrific heat (4,000° F.) melted vital parts...
...Landing stages are nearly awash from the weight of iron and steel products ready to be shipped north or south, when fat, white side-wheelers pull up, conveyor belts immediately move incoming cargo to freight trains paralleling the river, while sunburned, sweating dockers fill up the space with outgoing materials...
...Southern shell plant had conveyor lines running lengthwise; when shells reached the end of one line they had to be carted by truck to the start of the next line. Knudsen revised the lines, made one start where the other ended. Said he: "Now throw your trucks out the window...
...Atlantic conveyor belt may start moving soon. According to reports published last fall, and in the Daily News last week, Army fields in Greenland are or soon will be ready for use. The Army already has airfields in Iceland, where U.S. Major General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel has taken over the command of all troops from Britain's Major General Henry Osborne Curtis. Last week General Curtis received the Distinguished Service Medal, first U.S. decoration awarded to a Briton in World...