Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet the coal and ore import needs of the mills, Japanese steamship companies began chartering extra tonnage from foreign shipowners. As a result, almost all freight rates were pushed skyward. At the peak of the boom in 1969, the steamship companies were chartering Greek and Norwegian vessels to haul coal from Hampton Roads, Va., to Japan for the hungry steel mills at rates that gave the shipowners profits of as much...
...hour visit, twice as long as any previous stay, they will crisscross more than 22 miles of lunar terrain, traveling to the very edge of a winding, quarter-mile-deep gorge called Had ley Rille in the forbidding lunar highlands. Before their return to earth with an expected haul of 250 Ibs. of moon rocks, they will put a tiny scientific satellite into lunar orbit...
...trading center is the town of Peñas Blancas, a huddle of 50 rickety buildings. There a mining-squad leader spreads out his haul before a family boss who may carry a million pesos (about $50,000) in a shoulder-strap bag. The emeralds are hauled back to Bogota, where many are sold to foreign dealers in back rooms of the dim bars and cafes that line 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Jewels are smuggled out of the country by two international combines that finance the families' buying trips. Some emeralds leave in the pockets...
...benefit of the large percentage of elderly riders in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Municipal airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking. Prosaic buses haul passengers from terminal to aircraft at Atlanta and Honolulu airports, among others. The Hawaiian version consists of pint-sized wiki wiki (hurry hurry) vehicles that play taped Hawaiian music and broadcast advice on where to rent cars and find free pineapple juice...
...properly: in his first attempt Hogarth simply strapped two chunks of polystyrene to his feet and promptly tipped over in a tiny, 6-ft.-deep pool, plunging into the water head first. Because of the buoyancy of the blocks, he was unable to right himself, and rescuers had to haul him to safety. Undaunted, Hogarth continued to improve the design until he achieved stability. "I could have walked for hours if my legs hadn't begun to ache," he said after last week's excursion...