Word: ballasted
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...Tunnels as long as 470 yards were dug out by pick & shovel. Roadbeds were rebuilt by men carrying soil in baskets. Ballast-300,000 cubic meters of it-was made by men with steel hammers cracking big stones into little ones. As many as 80,000 laborers daily toiled to put the line through. Meanwhile, through UNRRA and CNRRA came desperately needed equipment to eke out the little on hand: almost a quarter-million ties from the U.S. and Canada, a few used locomotives and worn boxcars from Persia and Iraq, old rails of any weight, from any source...
There are no bodies, mysterious train rides, or psycho-analysists in this latest slick Hitchcock production. The theme of this one is love, with some international intrigue and atmospheric photography thrown in for ballast...
...inches thick. By itself, packed with apparatus and Professor Piccard, it would sink like a stone forever. But immediately above the sphere will be a submerged, boat-shaped float filled with light buoyant oil, which cannot be squashed. Below it, held tight by powerful electromagnets, will be enough iron ballast to make the submarine sink. When the Professor shuts off the current from a one-ton battery, the electromagnets will drop the ballast and the submarine will rise, he hopes...
...some purchased by foreign governments) to ravaged countries. At least twelve million tons of grain, nine million tons of coal must reach Europe from the Americas before July. Needy countries will call for other foods, clothing, fuels, building supplies and machinery. Long port delays, irregular schedules, return trips in ballast, diversions to out-of-the-way points, make this type of carrying unpopular with private shipowners, eager to get back to lucrative regular runs. It will be a job largely for the nations with "surplus" ships-more ships than they need to carry their own trade...
...highlights of Fo'castle Waltz (some of them are quite high) are the crew's dingy benders and revels among the bordellos of an Argentine port, the perilous voyage back to the U.S. (which the rickety S.S. Hermanita made in ballast with the pumps choked and the lifeboats rusted to the davits), and Author Slobodkin's one-man mutiny when he was fed up with cleaning sewage from the bilges...