Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the East Coast and last year grossed $19.2 million, has in mind a system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
Included in the Russian shopping list were 110 small ships (cargo vessels, tankers and whalers), 110 power stations, 150 steam boilers, two floating docks, $84 million worth of machine tools, railroad equipment. Many of the items were strategic, i.e., useful to a Soviet war economy...
...university professor put it: "Without the means of free expression, it is impossible to gauge the feelings of the Spanish people. It is dangerous to allow them to let off steam because you cannot see in which direction the steam will...
McCabe suggested that the Republicans may be using the bill to "take the heat off things," He doesn't mind if they "let off steam--it's better than their doing something serious"--but this has deeper implications at this time. "I wish Eisenhower had not made his statement," McCabe said...
...another. The part that matters is a light farce, leaning toward sophisticated pratfalls rather than clever dialogue. The basic plot leaves much room for the actors to develop laughs, featuring a crew of "ninety day wonders" who are testing a subchaser that sports a new type steam eingine possessed of a flair for the dramatic. Shanghaied from the Mr. Roberts set, the crew does nothing new, but does it well; the engine is obviously the American branch of the same mechanical family that spawned the device in The Man in the White Suit. Led by Eddie Albert and Jack Webb...