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...foot long machine with a giant sword cuts the coal, and another monster resembling a dinosaur, the joy loader, scoops it up and transfers it to a cart. Conveyer belts carry the coal to the tipple for processing. Three strong men in an unmechanized mine can load a ton and a half in 15 minutes; one man with a joy loader handles two tons in 15 seconds...
...reasons, though, Inland is now competing directly with the truck mines, as only two-thirds of its production goes to company steel plants. Without mechanizing themselves, the small mines will be forced to maintain low8Inland Steel photoA Joy loader in Inland Steel mine scoops up coal. The machine can load two ton in 15 seconds and transfer it to automated cart for transport to conveyer belt...
Promising to clean an 8-lb. load of clothes for $1.50 to $2, they were expected to be just as successful. The Norge division of Chicago's Borg Warner Corp. got into the market early and now has 50% of it. Soon 32 other firms followed-including G.M.'s Frigidaire, Whirlpool, Westinghouse, Philco-and the competition was on. Most of the machines were sold not to established and experienced drycleaners, but to investors who swallowed the high-powered promises of "profits while you sleep." Hard-talking salesmen urged investors to take out 90% loans on equipment worth...
...propaganda, money and arms." The subversion airlift also figured prominently in the questions and answers at Kennedy's press conference two days later. The key to the airlift, obviously, is Mexico. And while the Mexicans may pass on the airport mug shots, stamp passports and occasionally confiscate a load of propaganda, they have done nothing to stop the flights, or to stem the flood of people pouring into the country bound for the Cuban island dictatorship-and bound to make trouble at home...
...were shortchanged because payments were based on outmoded cost-of-living standards. Thus a mother with four children would collect only $64 a month for rent and $3 a day for food. Moreover, the committee pointed out. rehabilitation efforts were virtually nonexistent, and welfare workers labored under an average load of 152 cases each, although the Federal Government recommended a maximum...