Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo at prevailing rates, without a set schedule. Then, in another 18 months, the Savannah will be chartered to the States Marine Lines, which will put her in service on a regular commercial schedule...
...town had been without water and light for weeks; now, everything had been arranged to unload the plane and greet the officials who came along with it from Leopoldville. But as the big U.N. Globemaster rolled to a stop with its cargo of electric generators, everything dissolved into typically Congolese chaos...
...betrays the boy and his brother to the immigration police. Too late the poor brute perceives that in betraying his friends he has betrayed himself, that in embracing the past he has forfeited the future, that in refusing to change he has agreed to die. He plunges a cargo hook into his own heart. "Why?" he gasps as he expires...
...also completed a four-station, $113 million Eastern extension to its 4½-year-old Distant Early Warning radar, which now stretches some 4,500 miles across the Arctic to provide aircraft detection. Just supplying the DEW line takes $14 million a year, involves 45,000 tons of cargo, shipped by air, tankers, LSTs and barges. Backing up the DEW lines are the mid-Canada line of radar stations on the 55th parallel, along with gap-plugging, low-altitude radar eyes spotted throughout the U.S. and Canada, seagoing picket ships, airborne radar and Texas towers...
...longer and harder on Antarctica, it is far ahead of all comers in taming and probing the continent. With good supply lines from its base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the U.S. in season flies some 7,500 men back and forth to the continent, plus thousands of tons of cargo. It has flown in prefabricated huts to protect its Antarctic team from the bitter weather, is planning to install nuclear reactors at its outposts. The first reactor is being erected now at the air facility at McMurdo Sound, and others will eventually go to the South Pole and Byrd stations...