Word: haulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each of the 200 missiles would have its own oval "racetrack," ten to 15 miles long. Along every track would be 23 underground shelters. Playing a kind of shell game, a monstrous, 180-ft.-long TEL (transporter-erector-launcher) would laboriously haul the MX from one shelter to another. Or the TEL might leave the missile in place for a while and carry a dummy MX to another shelter or around the course. Watching from the sky, Soviet spy satellites could never be sure exactly where the missile was and hence would have to target all 23 shelters on each...
...unmatched in the industry. Indeed, in an age when much of American business seems to have slipped into a search for quick profits and is marked by shoddy workmanship, the 104,000 engineers, designers, draftsmen, machinists, executives and salesmen of Boeing stand out as proof that, over the long haul, the only lasting standard of value in any market is quality itself. Said Air Force Secretary Hans Mark of the Pentagon's decision to award the cruise contract to Boeing: "Both contractors turned in good products. The differences between the two designs were small, but they were significant enough...
...expecting one or more big Government contracts like the C-5A transport plane, the TFX fighter aircraft or the SST supersonic, Boeing grew fat and sloppy. Seattle's nickname for the firm was particularly apt: "The Lazy B." The company plunged ahead anyway and kept turning out short-haul 737 and 747 jumbos amid bottlenecks and shortages. Then the market collapsed due to the 1969 recession and earnings slumped, from $83 million in 1968 to $10 million the following year. Boeing in the late 1960s was becoming the Chrysler Corp...
...gigantic haul was the second major loss Weinberg had experienced in just three days. On March 6 he set out to send to Canada three aluminum containers, each 6 ft. by 6 ft., that were filled with scraps of gold and silver. Two of the containers made it onto the plane. The third, filled with gold, did not, and police were still looking for leads in that case. At least Weinberg could take solace from the fact that the loss, estimated at $790,000, was fully covered with Lloyd's of London. Last week's far bigger haul...
Pondering this winter's abnormalities, meteorologists can only agree that while they are able to make accurate short-range forecasts-clear and cold today, rain tomorrow-the long haul still mystifies them (see ESSAY) Admits Schneider: "This business of ours is, in many ways, still more of an art than a science." After this winter, few Americans would care to argue with...