Word: ballasting
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...Mexican who was unmoved by such warnings was swarthy, cigar-chomping Arturo Quiroz. As custodian of the 16-story National Lottery building, Mexico City's only floating skyscraper, he had only to transfer water from one to another of the four great ballast tanks beneath his building, then keep her steady as she went. Said he: "We'll ride it down. Everybody should be doing the same...
Farrington, who had made the road flourish, president. He had rebuilt its rickety trackage, spent $100 million for new equipment and other improvements, and sent 20 streamlined Rock Island "Rockets" flashing over its new, heavy-ballast rails. The war boom which helped all railroads had mightily helped the Rock Island. During the last seven years its net profits were more than $80 million...
...staying there, it will be suspended from streamlined aluminum containers filled with aviation gasoline, which is considerably lighter than water and almost incompressible. Fully loaded, the bathyscaphe will weigh about 40 tons. Because the winches of the mother ship cannot support this weight, the gasoline and half the ballast must be added after the bathyscaphe is in the Water...
When Congress chopped the frayed mooring cable of OPA a year ago, there was a good deal of screeching around the big balloon of the U.S. economy. Harry Truman had already tossed out the ballast of wage controls. The cable was about to part anyhow. The first flight without controls soon made even 1940 prices look like something out of great-grandmother's album of souvenirs...
...Funchal in the Madeiras, where they put in to shift ballast, Skipper Seligman took on one of the trophies of the voyage. The horde of bumboat-men around the ship included one rascally old cicerone who presented a letter purporting to be from the captain of another ship...