new crane from Air Technical Industries<\/a>. I was about to throw it out when I noticed the headline of the release:<\/p>\nVERSATILE MULTI-TASKING JIB-MASTER<\/p>\n
If I saw a help-wanted ad with that headline, I’d send ’em my resume on the spot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We get a lot of fun\/strange product-new press releases and conference announcements by mail at our magazines. I find it funny that people spend money on print mail for this stuff, rather than using e-mail, but I guess they think that editors prefer retyping press releases and manually scanning images. Sometimes Mr. Postman brings us … <\/p>\n
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