stopped off at the new york waterfront for a look at some of the new ideas being adopted by the great american shipping industry let's visit the hudson river pier of the more mccormick line and see a few of the nations in cargo handling methods often during the past few years when a cargo liner is about to seal the bustle of activity as much like that to be found when a passenger liner early except of course that it's good instead of people that converge on the pier from all parts of the nation the use of pallets and forklift trucks as relieve the hardworking longshoremen of much of the back breaking labor that formerly was has lost the cases and bags are stacked on the pallets which then can be shifted about the pier or this cargo is going into a steel container called a cargo van first the cargo vans are proving especially useful in the safe shipment of small cargo that's more susceptible to pilferage or damage and handling the  scientifically and snugly packed so goods can shift or break loose either when being loaded or during the ocean voy in days gone by and even today in the ports of some nations cargo is manhandled aboard ships trundled up gangways then down into the holes on the backs of men torturous expensive business compared to methods like only u s style speed service and efficiency have allowed american shipping firms to meet foreign competition with vastly lower wages the same sort of know how that created the wide array of american industrial products we see moving out to ready markets everywhere in the free world for the best in the world you must have the best tires not even joe's nalini has any doubts about where they after the tires come barrels of salt come on all the ingeniously stowed away according to a plan carefully thought out in advance one day is spent in watching the loading of a cargo liner gives a good idea of the tremendous scope and variety of production it's a real achievement on the part of more mccormick and other land sea and air transport industries but they've been able to keep the goods moving as fast as our farms and factories turn it o made a couple of young men named lloyd and f briggs dow jones for the past nine years after after the operations of one of the biggest tugboat companies in the busiest harbor in the world the scene is of course new york and the dispatcher office of the tao tel towing company from this nerve center i control the movement of thirty eight tugs that ply hundreds of miles each day back and forth over the north river the east river the lower bay and the rest of this busy port attending to  highly essential duties calls from customers but the office of the dispatcher who must deploy the fleet of tugs by radio telephone in such a way that each tug can move from one assignment to the next with a minimum of lost time since calls for tugs come in at all hours of the day and night and there are frequent time changes keeping the organisation running efficiently takes some doing this cabin has been dispatched to the side of an incoming freighter that needs plenty of skilled assistance in reaching a not to ever appear in the face of a and powerful tricky tidal current homes for factories for steam and electricity history shows that we americans have attained the highest standard of living in the world the competitive american system based on freedom for the individual has encouraged us to develop new and better raw materials and to improve our buildings equipment and tools as a result we now produce three to four times more per hour than we did an eighteen fifty while we enjoy nearly twice as much leisure we can have an even higher standard of living in the future why increasing our productivity which will mean more and better products