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...drum, which measures six feet in diameter, has been undergoing extensive repairs in Chicago for the past several weeks. When the Bank learned that the repaired drum could not reach Cambridge on time if shipped by freight, Page and Rinehardt volunteered to meet the crisis...
...system for safe, sure landings in bad weather, and a big, decentralized terminal that minimizes the passengers' ground time, which many experts say may be 25% of all air-travel time in the jet age. The Massachusetts legislature has also voted $18 million for new hangars and a freight terminal to make Logan even more efficient. Next month Dallas' Love Field will open a $7,500,000 terminal building with facilities for 6,000,000 passengers annually (current volume: 3,000,000). The city has also built a 500,000-gal. underground fuel-storage system, and concrete taxi...
...Granite Gorge, where the millracing Colorado River widens, flattens and becomes the tip of Lake Mead. The nearest town, Peach Springs (pop. 550), Ariz., is 50 miles away. Yet there last week was a marvel of modern engineering: one of the world's longest single-span freight tramways, stretching 9,010 ft. across and 2,800 ft. up to the south rim. Its purpose: to haul bat manure out of caverns where it has lain for ages and hopefully net the haulers $12.5 million profit on a $1,000,000 investment...
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...
Hurtling into an S-curve at the bottom of the hill, the train came apart. The twin diesel locomotives rocketed on down the track, pulling the freight cars with them. Five cars plunged into a field; three others pounded one another to confused wreckage on the tracks. Another was derailed in a narrow cut. The toll: 178 dead and nearly 700 injured-biggest Western Hemisphere railroad death total since a Mexican train wreck killed approximately...