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Thanks for the link, Tom. I was astounded by the magnitude of their operation (e.g. sending away a dump truck full of abrasive grit and "steel dust" every morning that had settled out of the "rinse water" from their grinding machines the previous day)!
Thanks for the link, Tom. I was astounded by the magnitude of their operation (e.g. sending away a dump truck full of abrasive grit and "steel dust" every morning that had settled out of the "rinse water" from their grinding machines the previous day)!
- GT
120000 knives per day is almost 44 million knives per year. I don't know when Imperial was churning out that many knives, but let me guesstimate that it was about 1950. The US population in 1950 was about 151 million people. So Imperial was making enough knives annually that about 30% of the US population (44 million knives / 151 million people) could have had a new Imperial each year (if they had the cash).
Yeah, that’s the part that stood out the most to me too, along with the somewhat sketchy disposal methodThanks for the link, Tom. I was astounded by the magnitude of their operation (e.g. sending away a dump truck full of abrasive grit and "steel dust" every morning that had settled out of the "rinse water" from their grinding machines the previous day)!
- GT
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I never knew she was French, but I never gave her nationality much thought.She was hot, back when they couldn't just get a plastic surgeon to make them hot.
Amazingly she passed away on the 130th anniversary of the first public screening of a film by the Lumière brothers...I never knew she was French, but I never gave her nationality much thought.
1895?
mediaindia.eu
OK, I get it now. I thought you meant the Bardot clip was from 1895.Yes, 28.XII.1895
Lumiere Brothers Stage First Public Screening of Movies In Paris - Media India Group
On December 28, 1895, the world’s first commercial movie screening took place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film was made by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe.
