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...operating costs on freighters and even more on passenger liners. High operating costs have also led to freight-rate rises of 48% since 1957, prompting many Hawaiian businessmen to blame Matson for the island's dizzily high prices and to shop for alternate shipping lines. Containing the Cargo. Powell has modernized the line's management and stepped up modernization of its fleet. Matson has converted one freighter into a floating garage to haul cars to Hawaii, and two others into bulk sugar carriers that pump their cargoes directly into the California refineries. But most of Matson...
...drastically reduced, an airplane uses much less fuel, thus can fly farther or carry more payload. The null will not have its first flight tests until next month, but Northrop is already making a joint study with Lockheed to apply LFC to Lockheed's EUR-141 jet cargo plane. Project Manager Don Warner is sure that the sucking slots can increase a C-141's payload by 74% or its nonstop range...
Floating Factory. Months of leisurely study showed the wreck to be a small merchantman about 30 ft. long. Fragments of pottery dated it back to around 1200 B.C., the late Bronze Age that Homer wrote about. Bits of planking preserved under the cargo show that the ship was probably built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets...
Where did the fat proton with its great cargo of energy come from? Cosmic rays are generally believed to be charged particles that have been speeded up by magnetic fields that are known to exist be tween the stars. But though this theory serves well enough for ordinary rays, the Milky Way galaxy to which the sun and its planets belong lacks magnetism strong enough to load 10²° electron-volts on a lone proton. Nothing else in the galaxy, such as an exploding supernova, could do the job either...
July 17, 1944, a Nazi truck convoy was crossing a pontoon bridge over the Po River in northern Italy when Allied bombers attacked. One driver was killed, but the trucks got across. Their cargo: a priceless haul of masterpieces, including the two pictured above, from Florence's Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace...