Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LaGuardia, which has cost the U.S. $10,050,000, will soon be laid up at the dock. The Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service, which has been operating the liner, announced last week that it is turning the ship back to the Maritime Administration...
...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
...invented an auto horn that worked off the exhaust and tootled several musical notes. He called it the Gabriel Horn, founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co., and made $150,000. Then he began to tinker with a shock absorber for autos. One day he was on a boat approaching a dock. As he now recalls it, his attention was directed by his secret partner "to a workman who was wrapping a rope around a pile, snubbing the boat." It gave him the idea for the first successful auto shock absorber, the Gabriel snubber...
...platitudes long. Together with Author Costain's lumbering, pseudo-Biblical style, they reduce the pace of The Silver Chalice to the gait of a lame camel. Occasionally, the inferior doings are spiced up with superior settings, e.g., Nero's sycophantic court, a gladiatorial breakfast, Jerusalem's Dock of Atonement...
...superliner is the dreamboat of William Francis Gibbs, 65, crack naval architect and famed designer of World War II's Liberty ships, and every type of naval ship from destroyer to battleship. He sold the dream to the Government and U.S. Lines Co.; the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry dock Co. made it come true...