Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into an orgy of expansion. Imports of heavy machinery became so great that ships had to wait as long as 30 days to unload, and Japan's trade deficit jumped to a record $1.5 billion. Determined to get the nation's balance of payments back on even keel, Ikeda raised interest rates, put curbs on imports, and mounted a drive to increase exports...
...production near Göteborg next spring, it will be the world's most fully automated shipyard, capable of building colossal, 140,000-ton ships on the industry's first real assembly line. It throws out the old method of building ships on stationary ways from the keel up. Instead, ships will emerge from a giant assembly shed stern first in 45-ft. sections; as they move down the ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will be installed, so that the ship does not have to spend months in a fitting dock after launching...
Europe's Biggest. This week the Kockums yard in Malmö will deliver the largest ship ever built in Scandinavia, the tanker Esso Lancashire (81,150 deadweight tons). At the Eriksberg yard in Göteborg, workers are laying the keel for the largest ship ever built in Europe, a 92,750-ton Socony Mobil tanker...
...Rome submitted prospective purchases to a trial as nerve-racking as watching a badly adjusted picture tube. Before a slave was bought and paid for, he was forced to stare at a potter's wheel rotating rapidly in bright sunlight. If the flicker caused the slave to keel over, the deal was off. Seizures before the spinning potter's wheel were taken as a sign of "the falling sickness," the Roman name for epilepsy...
...section to make sure that its center of gravity was correct. "This is a national project," said Sir Frank, and Aussies everywhere were caught up in the excitement. One company donated bronze, another turned it into screws at no cost, a third gave 20 tons of lead for her keel and ballast. Local manufacturers donated the crew's sweaters, shorts, and T-shirts...