Word: containerized
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Adams' battery consisted of a lightweight container, one electrode made of magnesium and another of cuprous chloride. It could be stored indefinitely and activated by simply pouring in fresh or salt water. While cooking up some cuprous chloride on his wife's stove, Adams accidentally dropped cigarette ashes...
Now, with the increasing popularity of jet air freight, along with the promise of truly gigantic cargo planes within a few years, U.S. shipping companies have finally, and belatedly, begun to battle back. The weapon on which they pin the most hope: a technique called container shipping. A seagoing adaptation...
Although containers have been used by a few U.S. ship operators for a decade, the system has really taken hold only lately. Last week the Moore-McCormack freighter Mormacahair steamed through the stormy Atlantic to Antwerp with that ocean's first regularly scheduled commercial container cargo. In mid-March...
Though container shipping may not solve all of the industry's many problems, its enthusiasts insist that it will turn out to be the biggest and best switch since steam replaced sails.
Harvard, Stanford, Chicago and Columbia Teachers. Of the four, the Harvard Graduate School of Education is currently taking the boldest measures to cope with education's imponderable future. A yearlong, soul-searching study recently examined the school's aims and responsibilities-and last week the school dedicated a...