Word: forklifts
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...forklift truck, major instrument of the change, is at least 32 years old. But it was not until World War II, when the U.S. Navy used forklift trucks to perform prodigious feats of loading & unloading battle cargo, that U.S. industry woke up to the fact that it had been squandering its manpower by doing most of its lifting by hand. It was paying $9 billion a year, roughly one-fourth of the total U.S. factory payroll, just to pick things up and set them down...
...help do this better and quicker, the materials-handling makers last week displayed hundreds of their latest products ranging from cranes and monorail conveyors to the ubiquitous forklift trucks which are already creating their own folklore. They can raise heavy loads (up to 40 tons) up an elevatorlike track, and stack them as high as 15 ft. above the floor Some of the new trucks came equipped with interchangeable accessories-forks for lifting boxes, steel fingers for grabbing big rolls, e.g., newsprint. One model boasted a two-way radio, by which its driver could be directed to any corner...