Word: containerized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Game Plan. The Pascagoula plant is also far behind on construction of eight container ships for the Farrell and American President lines. Now scheduled for completion next fall, the first such vessel will be 21 months behind schedule and will cost about double its contract price of $21 million, making...
But massive help arrived swiftly, as much from individuals responding spontaneously to the crisis as from relief agencies. "We all live so far apart that we have to rely on each other to get along," explained Pat Dixon, a Rapid City banker. Leland Thayer and his 13-year-old son...
Yet the time was probably gained back by moments of sheer inspiration, scientific and otherwise. While searching for a small but powerful motor to run the new camera, a Polaroid engineer had the unusual insight one afternoon that the motors used to run his son's toy race cars...
Skeptics, including many distinguished scientists, remain unconvinced that every precaution has been taken. During a reactor's operation, the worst possible contingency is the uncontrolled melting of its nuclear core. To preclude such an occurrence, which the AEC calls "the maximum credible accident," the core is continually bathed in...
Exposing Microbes. Other scientific work on the 3½-day return journey went more smoothly. At a distance of some 174,000 miles from earth, Mattingly emerged from the cabin to retrieve cassettes of film from Casper's scientific equipment bay. During the televised "space walk," Mattingly also exposed...