Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arctic, conventional ice breakers ride up on the ice and break it downward. The technique has limitations. Forcing the ice down against water resistance reduces the efficiency of even the world's most powerful ice breakers. And broken chunks bob up astern, where they may damage cargo vessels that follow. Often the icebreakers are halted when pressure and friction from trapped floating chunks form a vise along their sides. Now a Canadian inventor, Scott Alexander, 55, has developed a new device that breaks ice upward. The new present seagoing ice plow, called the Alexbow, may well render present...
...four feet thick. He also proposes a detachable version that could be fitted to any vessel, and a plow that could be built onto the bow of a ship during construction. "There is no question in my mind," he says, "that one day icebreakers will no longer be used. Cargo ships themselves will do the ice-breaking." In a prelude to such an era, two Alexbow-equipped barges will be driven by a 5,000-h.p. trawler through 200 miles of Arctic ice this summer to supply a consortium drilling for oil on Canada's northernmost islands...
...Eleanor Freeman, 47, learned one Saturday morning three years ago that her husband had just been gravely injured in a fall from a cargo lift on the Philadelphia waterfront, and he sent word to sue. So she dashed off-not to the hospital, but to her attorney. Suits filed on behalf of living victims, she knew, tend to be more remunerative under Pennsylvania law than suits filed by aggrieved heirs. As the injured man's wife, she was authorized to file a suit on his behalf-but only so long as he remained alive. The complaint was typed...
After studying the airlines' voluminous claims and proposals, CAB Examiner Robert L. Park, 48, recommended a parceling of routes among seven applicants. They include the three Pacific veterans-Pan American, Northwest and United Air Lines-and three newcomers, including Trans World Airlines, Eastern and Western. Cargo-carrying Flying Tiger Line also got a piece of the action. Approval of the CAB's full five-member board and the President is required before Park's decision becomes final, but the $23,700-a-year examiner's 215-page recommendation gave the front runners a long lead...
Chicago to Siberia. For all the new jets, many of Wien Alaska's 81 pilots will continue to fly De Havilland Otters and Harland Skyvans. Their cargo may include anything from a load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...