Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preliminary studies agree that the station will have to be freighted piecemeal into orbit inside the space shuttle's big cargo bay. This "building-block approach," as the chief of NASA's Space-Station Task Force, John Hodge, calls it, will take a minimum of five flights. The components will include two or more cylinder-shaped modules, each with the volume of a large recreational vehicle. These will serve as working and living ("habitation modules" in NASAese) quarters for the astronauts. Solar panels will catch sunlight and turn it into electricity. Huge radiators will shed excess heat from...
...freeze-up has bottom-line consequences. The idle towboats and barges eat up about $5,000 a week in (diesel fuel, insurance fees, crew salaries and supplies. Meanwhile, the barge lines must sublease other boats to carry cargo on existing contracts. What is more, corn and soybean prices have jumped 10? to 15? per bu. in some markets, but the grain companies cannot cash in. Agri Industries, a large Des Moines grain concern, has ten barges of corn and five barges of soybeans worth about $3.85 million stuck in the river. "It's going to be costly, no question...
...hotel bathrooms. Following high school, he went to work for TWA as a mechanic and moonlighted at an auto-repair garage. After selling surplus airplane parts and advising competing airlines and then TWA on engine design, Paulson in 1951 set up his own business converting surplus passenger planes into cargo aircraft. It grew, and by 1978 he was ready to begin building airplanes on his own. He acquired Grumman's money-losing corporate-aircraft division in Savannah, Ga., renamed it Gulfstream, improved quality, cut costs and accelerated delivery times. When Gulfstream went public in April, Paulson collected $85 million...
...House Republican leaders to try to quell their misgivings. He argued that the Marines were now adequately protected from attack. Not only are some 500 to 600 ferried from the airport to the ships every night, but those on shore now live in underground bunkers built of steel ship cargo containers...
...carton of razor blades, a case of Scotch or the latest in digital watches. Smugglers make a killing in African marketplaces. Recently police raided a privately owned store along Pugu Road in Dar es Salaam and found a cache of spare vehicle parts large enough to fill the cargo hold of a ship. Says former Tanzanian Police Chief Ken Flood: "Africa has always attracted con men and carpetbaggers. But they were almost always whites from Europe. Now the blacks themselves have learned the game...