Word: cargo
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...black-and-white movie in the 1930s, with Carey Grant being chauffeured here and there by some effervescent central-casting type. But Neil isn’t Carey, and his job is hardly romantic. I have seen the president’s Oldsmobuick in Harvard Yard waiting for its cargo to finish up in his computer-less office. It is as if the president is too frail to walk to Mass Ave. without a gasoline-powered sedan chair. The president’s sedan has vanity plates that read...
...typhoon, which swept about 2,000 units overboard. They're now showing up on Pacific Coast beaches, along with flotsam from other recent spills: an estimated 10,000 Tweety & Sylvester bath mats, 34,000 hockey gloves and 18,000 Nike Cross Trainers. Seattle oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who tracks cargo spills with a worldwide network of beachcombers, says, "The North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans are 25% rougher than they were 25 years ago," possibly as a result of global warming. Mix that with quickening trade, and each year up to 10,000 cargo containers are swept away...
...bone shaker." And Leahy has no qualms about going for the jugular. "The A380 will be a new flying experience," he says. "That's what the 747 provided in 1970." He maintains that airlines will probably install casinos, gyms or duty-free shopping in the A380's abundant cargo hold. Joseph San Pietro, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, dismisses such a notion as a flight of fancy. "You're not going to be running on a treadmill if you hit turbulence," he says...
...fuel and produce thrust, rather than relying on compressed air from a jet engine's fan blades. As well as being capable of hypersonic speeds (greater than Mach 4), scramjets get their oxygen from the air rather than tanks (as rockets do), reducing cost and freeing up space for cargo or passengers. They are also currently environmentally friendly: all three models under test run on pollution-free hydrogen...
...were manageable even if the plane's violent rocking kept the crew strapped into their seats. But the most sophisticated eavesdropping gear was supposed to be destroyed in order to be saved, smashed with hammers and hatchets or stuffed into weighted bags and dumped out of the plane's cargo doors. Once the plane managed to land safely, there could be one last chance to cram secret papers into special containers and then detonate grenades inside them...