Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California has 536 girls (10% of its labor force). It started them filing off burrs, admitted them to training courses, promoted them to machine-shop operation, sheet metal, riveting, blueprint reading, inspection. Now they assemble all parts of the fuselage (but not the heavy engine). They slide under the conveyor; install power lines, electric systems, pedals, control parts; connect oil lines; rivet ailerons and stabilizers...
...Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...
Besides Brother Louis (business brains), 300 employes help turn out the Kahn blueprints. But old A. K. still passes on every one. Fifty different buildings may move, conveyor-belt-wise, over his desk in a day; he remembers their smallest details. Recently, A. K. celebrated the quickening pace of his business by giving shares in it to 25 old employes. If Defense booms his backlog as he expects, his fees should top $2,000,000 this year. Once a year Factory-Builder Kahn makes a concession to his artistic (10%) nature. He takes on a residence, and the firm, geared...
...Fine Arts Palace. Commissioned for the new San Francisco Junior College library, the fresco counterposes the old Mexican Indian God Quetzalcoatl against a steel stamping machine (with the same outline, even to breastlike appendage), Mexican pyramids and tropical scenery against U. S. skyscrapers, traditional Mexican serpent against conveyor belt...
...experiments producing acetylene rubber. A Du Pont chemist heard him, started his company on the trail. With Nieuwland's collaboration Du Pont workers made a good rubbery material first called DuPrene, now neoprene, which is highly resistant to oil. Its dozens of uses include hose linings, gaskets, conveyor belts, rubber gloves, printing plates, refrigerator seals, hospital sheeting, sink scrapers...