Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning to Kingston, Jamaica's capital, from a one-day outing at northwest-coast Montego Bay. 1,500 passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...
...mental hospital, of whose 1,117 patients 426 were schizophrenic (a somewhat smaller proportion than that usually found in the West). His findings: schizophrenia is commonest among the educated classes in southern Ghana, who are torn between native and imported Western cultures, and it decreases as distance from the coast and Western influence increases. Said Dr. Forster: "I maintain we are all. endowed with basically similar mental attributes. It is quite clear that the psychological reactions of our patients differ in no way from the reactions of similar groups of patients elsewhere in the world...
...interested in icecap missile bases, which could be ideal places to station giant rockets in ready-to-go position. Temperature and humidity would be low and constant, deep under the ice, and this is good for delicate mechanism. Under-ice supply routes would lead invisibly in from the coast, and over the base itself would spread a smooth, white plain, showing no faintest sign of human activity...
...built a multimillion-dollar business helping oilmen explore offshore fields with massive mobile barges that can be rooted to the ocean floor solidly enough to withstand the most violent storms. Five De Long barges are already drilling in the Gulf of Mexico; another has just started operating off the coast of California; still others abuilding are slated for South America and Southeast Asia, generally at rents of $6.000 a day, including equipment. Starting with a maximum depth of 50 ft., the company has learned to build mobile rigs, that can operate in 100 ft. of water, will soon be able...
...receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts. Another strong possibility: De Long platforms as offshore launching pads for antiaircraft missiles. Says a De Long executive: "Almost every week somebody who has heard about our platforms calls up and suggests a new application...