Word: monorails
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...confined to the air, Lockheed's flair is currently being applied to projects on land and under the sea. Pushed to spread out and diversify by Chairman Courtlandt Gross, company engineers are building a $12 million dam in Wyoming, have developed a monorail system to relieve weary pedestrians at large airports and shopping centers, and are designing shipping containers that can be used interchangeably in truck, rail, sea and air transport. Lockheed is also working on a 300-ton hydrofoil vessel for the Navy, designing a shell-shaped undersea workboat that will carry a crew around the ocean floor...
Lure of Wheels. But at least 90% of the halls, arenas and playing fields are ready for the athletes and the crowds. Last gaps in the new $55 million monorail from refurbished Haneda air port to downtown Tokyo Station are being closed. Partially completed elevated highways have cut the road time from airport to city to 40 minutes or so. The high-speed railway that will carry passengers the 300 miles from Tokyo to Osaka in three hours is ready to run-but company officials must figure out how to curb suicide-minded Nipponese who want to be among...
...senior class at high school. A circus playing to 35 people is one of the rainiest sights in the world, and one can see it in the Ringling tent. The circus is a good one too. Finally, the entire amusement area is ringed by American Machine & Foundry's monorail, which is a good ride but commands a view of the dreariest part of the fair...
...foremost, they are expected to enjoy themselves. This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head off, and shoot 31 minutes of rapids in a hollow...
...firm is prime contractor for the $82.9 million Rayburn House Office Building. McCloskey also worked on the new $24 million east-front face on the U.S. Capitol and on the $4 million Senate underground monorail system, and he is sole contractor for the huge $12.6 million "Federal Office Building...