Word: docked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million for airport, dock and road construction to connect backwater towns with larger population centers...
...deep draft, her superstructure remained above water, and within hours she was being raised for repairs. While the incident was hardly grave, it gave further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only weeks earlier, American advisers had requested that the dock be better guarded, but received no response. On the evening after the Card explosion, eight U.S. servicemen in Saigon were wounded when a terrorist on a bicycle threw a bomb...
...Federal Maritime Administration to win the right to become the first U.S. line to design its own ships, though they are partly paid for by federal subsidy. As a result, each Lykes ship is so equipped that it can load and unload all its own cargo without help of dock booms, can "turn around" in port in as few as five or six hours. Efficiency applies at the home office too. Turman rises at 4 a.m., breakfasts with his staff before 7 in the bleak company cafeteria. The early schedule is the only way he knows to keep up with...
...Norfolk's whole downtown area, have been knocked down and replaced with some $42 million worth of new buildings. Last week plans for a $100 million medical center were announced. A grassed and tree-lined pedestrian mall has replaced Main Street. The world's largest coal-loading dock has been built by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and savings and loan assets have quadrupled in the past ten years. Population has doubled since the war. And with the bridge, the city will finally be converted from a port stuck out at the far end of nowhere (few driving...
Beyond Anchorage, the earthquake stalked like an insatiable beast. In the coastal town of Valdez, a hole opened in the dock area and a man and his two little children disappeared into it. Moments later, the entire dock was gone. In Seward, fires fed by ruptured oil tanks raged through the night. Airports for miles around reported buckled runways and disrupted services; at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, the control tower itself collapsed...