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Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's administration had long delayed such a drastic step, though a S.I.U. walkout and the dynamiting of a Canadian freighter manned by a rival union last fall indicated that there would be no waterfront peace as long as Banks was in power. For the past five months, government-appointed trustees have run the S.I.U. in an effort to clean it up and get the members themselves to vote Banks...
...incinerator would be installed in a World War II freighter, which Congress could sell to Massachusetts for $1. The cost of converting a Liberty or Victory ship for garbage disposal would be about $1,250,000, according to the plan's authors...
...real surge in air freight came only after the airlines began flying the big passenger jets, whose cargo compartments alone can carry as much freight as a DC-4 air freighter. But the breakthrough in air freight is only beginning. Before mid-1965, U.S. airlines will be flying 30 DC-8F and Boeing 707-321C jet freighters, each of which in one week's normal schedule can car ry coast to coast enough freight to fill 20 boxcars. Using prepacked freight pallets, special lift mechanisms and aircraft floors with built-in rollers, crews can load and unload...
...Within moments, the computer's memory drums typed out the names of five vessels within 100 miles of the Lakonia, and urgent messages were flashed to them to proceed to the stricken liner. The five were the Argentine passenger liner Salfa, the Belgian merchant ship Charlesville, the British freighters Montcalm and Stratheden, and the Brazilian freighter Rio Grande. Some were already on the way, having picked up the S O S on their own radios. The R.A.F. at Gibraltar hurriedly organized a flight of rescue planes...
Such considerations aside, the Japanese during the past few years have won an enviable reputation for ingenious engineering. Tokyo's Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering, the world's largest shipbuilder, has launched an 11,000-ton freighter whose "bulbous bow" (like a nuclear sub's) enables it to cruise at 20 knots on 25% less fuel than conventional ships. Kobe's Kawasaki Heavy Industry recently launched a 29,000-ton tanker whose engine and control systems are so highly automated that it is manned by only 31 crewmen v. 62 for comparable tankers. Also at Kobe, Mitsubishi Heavy...