Word: novas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Albany, 124 miles up the Hudson River. Company officials expect that distribution costs will be lower out of Albany, even though the new location adds eleven hours of travel time. Some Midwestern shippers are abandoning U.S. docks entirely in favor of ports at Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products as Playboy magazine, Kodak film, and Michigan beans (which in a later incarnation are known as Boston baked beans) now depart from...
...hero for the last two qualities alone. Like Francis Parkman, who tried to traverse all the lands and waters he wrote histories about, Morison has retraced Champlain's paths, starting as a young man in 1906 when he sailed along the French explorer's routes off Nova Scotia and down the New England coast, growing more and more admiring as he remarked how accurate Champlain's soundings and descriptions of such harbors as Plymouth and Gloucester still were after 300 years. In case anyone should doubt, Morison reproduces many of Champlain's highly decorative as well...
...years, a consortium of 33 companies-headed by Humble Oil, a Jersey Standard affiliate, and including such giants as Atlantic Richfield, Getty, Mobil and Texaco -have poked and probed the continental shelf in hopes of a big discovery. Recently oil and gas were discovered off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and hopes soared. Geologists concluded that the find was probably part of a pool extending southward to North Carolina, and oilmen accelerated the Atlantic search. Most promising sites so far: Georges Bank Trough off Massachusetts, Baltimore Canyon Trough off the Middle Atlantic states and Blake Plateau off Florida. As Geologist Wilson...
...plummeted to 3.9%. At this year's Detroit auto show, which ended last week, the sports compacts were elbowed to the sidelines by family sedans, high-ticket luxury models and by two categories of lightweight, low-cost cars: the compacts (such as the Ford Maverick, Chevrolet Nova and American Motors Hornet) and subcompacts (such as Ford Pinto, Chevy Vega and Dodge Colt). Summarizing the change in taste, Chrysler Vice President Bob McCurry told TIME Correspondent David DeVoss: "The emphasis now is on practicality, quality and convenience, and it is the young people who are leading the parade...
...beaches and greasy seagulls may soon be a thing of the past -provided the machine, nicknamed the "slick-licker," can get to the scene on time. The brainchild of Canadian Engineer Richard Sewell, the licker passed its biggest test last year when a tanker was grounded in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, and began gushing...