Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...contrast, the destruction of KAL 007 has become an international incident of near crisis proportions--complete with a Soviet veto in the UN Security Council, and significant repercussions in East-West relations, ranging from Congressional debates on defense issues to the refusal of Boston longshoremen to unload cargo from Soviet vessels--and came as a major shock to the Korean nation. The Korean government, the principal aggrieved party, has had its hands virtually tied...
...tries to chart China's future. Chinese have synthesized insulin, flung satellites into space, made nuclear bombs ? yet do not supply their villages with adequate common matches. Baoshan, the huge new steel complex near Shanghai, is a state-of-the-art operation. But steel production requires heavy cargo of both coking coal and ore, and the river creek on which the Baoshan plant was built could not take heavy-laden ships. So iron ore must be shipped to the Philippines and then transshipped in small boats to Baoshan...
...aboard the shuttle when the five-man crew completed its orbital agenda. A key test of the Challenger's 50-ft. mechanical arm went off smoothly. Guided by Bluford and Mission Specialist Dale Gardner, the arm slowly grasped an 8,500-lb. dumbbell in the middle of the cargo bay, hauled it out into space and brought it back inside. The test was a preparation for STS-13, scheduled for next April, when NASA hopes the arm will pluck a malfunctioning 5,100-lb. satellite from space and bring it aboard the shuttle for repairs. Throughout the flight, Bluford...
...which briefly startled the crew. Because a fire or any outpouring of gas in Challenger's confined atmosphere would have lethal potential, the shuttle has seven fire extinguishers primed for instant use. However, a quick check showed that the alarm was set off by a sensor in the cargo area's aft bay No. 1 that had a history of being supersensitive, like a home smoke detector that goes off at the merest cigarette puff. Other sensors on Challenger's control panel were normal, and so, with the approval of flight engineers, the crew turned...