Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cargo-carrying Electras crashed in the past nine months. One broke up in flight over Pennsylvania, killing all four people aboard. The other missed its approach while trying to land in Kansas City; the three crewmen died...
Started in 1982 by Stephen Quinto, 49, a Florida cargo pilot, Northeastern began with one aging DC-8 that ferried passengers between Fort Lauderdale and Islip, Long Island, near New York City. In two years the airline expanded to 17 destinations, including Chicago and Los Angeles, mostly by undercutting prices charged by its larger rivals. But Northeastern faltered in an ensuing fare war, when it could not raise enough capital to provide the airplanes it needed. Immediately after filing for bankruptcy, Northeastern began calling itself the New Northeastern Airline and selling tickets on its five most profitable routes...
...Club from Milton Academy. Since graduating with a degree in economics, Stone has hit it big in the shipping industry. He is currently head of New York-based West India Shipping Inc., and before that ran States Marine Lines, which owns and operates a fleet of cargo ships...
SIGINT satellites are typically equipped with two large dishes, one for collecting signals and the other for sending them back to earth stations. Earlier rocket-launched versions weighed a little more than a ton. The shuttle, with its greater thrust and ample cargo bay, permits the U.S. to launch a satellite three times as large and boost it to a height of 22,300 miles, where it can stay in "geosynchronous" orbit, maintaining its position over the same spot of the earth...
...Thus far only some of the hull's planking and part of the vessel's keel, made of fir, have been unearthed from the sediment. Apparently, the ship foundered on the coast's treacherous rocks and went straight down, without splintering, thus retaining much of its cargo. Bass and his fellow archaeologists were able to date the ship from at least two clues: a delicate double-handled Greek cup, similar to those made between 1400 and 1350 B.C., and the copper ingots, with their characteristic handles, which resemble one drawn on an Egyptian tomb at Thebes dating...