Table of Contents: The sweeps and swoops of La Verne; Spun off and sprinting out; A bumper crop of savings; Overhead support underground; Dressed for the part; One for the book; Replenishing at sea; Less confusion, more perception; What's new.
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Barbecue grills; Health care; Videodiscs; Cotton; Mountaineering; Camping; Fashion industry; Bathing suits; Textile industry;
Table of Contents: Grilling is a gas; A partnership in patient care; Campus visits by video; A cotton belt boon; Kings of the mountain; A better barrier for bottles; A buying guide to swimwear; Overhead, underfoot, and in between; News in brief.
Huge motor driven drums like that shown in the picture dump the run of mine coal from railroad cars into the hoppers which feed the worlds largest anthracite breaker at Locust Summit, PA. The capacity of the automatic car dumps at this breaker is...
A group of Berlin youngsters stand on top a bomb damaged building near Tempelhof Airport, July 9, to watch airlift operations. A U.S. Air Force C-54 skymaster flies overhead, having just deposited it's cargo of coal.
For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
For the "hot test" at this automotive plant where six cylinder engines first come to life, overhead conveyors automatically find unoccupied test stands and carry each engine into place. (Photographed at Cleveland Engine Plant of Ford Motor Company)
In the new Greyhound super coach baggage is placed in locked, weather proof compartments underneath the passenger deck. Only wraps and small packages are carried in overhead racks.
Zug Iron and Steel Company muck bar mill and puddling furnaces, The puddling furnaces and waste heat boilers are in the center and right with the sqeezer to the left at the large flywheel. A overhead trolley system handles the delivery of the...
Charging Bessemer converter from a overhead crane supported ladle, Note: the ladle is designed, with it's wings, to also pour into a pig caster machine)
Cellophane enters one end of long casting machine as a liquid and is wound up at the other end as a dry, shiny film. On its way through the machine, a series of baths purify, wash and soften it after which it is dried. At the wind up end, a full...
Mylar polyester film, produced at DuPont's Circleville, Ohio plant is wound up in large mill rolls, which are then carried to the storage areas on overhead conveyors.
DuPont's Mylar polyester film emerges in a continuous sheet at the end of the manufacturing process at the Circleville, Ohio plant. It is then wound on large mill rolls, which are later slit in widths from 1/2 inch to 54 inches. The film is carried...
Overhead bridge carries pipes from hydrogen cyanide manufacturing unit to storage tanks at Memphis TN plant of the DuPont Company's Electrochemicals Department. Two basic industrial chemicals are produced here- sodium cyanide, which is made from...
Black powder line starts at soda mill, where synthetic nitrate is unloaded, screened and weighed out. Powder man at DuPont Belin Works uses traditional scoop shaped like snow plow to move sodium nitrate to the screen equipment, while more cascades...
