Word: trailer
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Compared with coal burners, nuclear power plants generate little waste. A 1,000-MW coal-fired facility produces 30 lbs. of ash per sec., which comes to 423,040 tons a year, or enough to fill 2,568 trailer trucks. The waste from a nuclear plant of the same size would fit into a refrigerator...
...members of the Meurer family are primarily angry. They blame the Government for the killing of Lance Corporal Ronald Meurer, 21. They think his death was a stupid waste. One evening last week they gathered in his parents' house trailer near Westport (pop. 200), a Louisville exurb on the Kentucky bank of the Ohio River, to rage and cry together...
...Camp Lejeune Marine buddy who had introduced Ronald and Deborah last year, died in a car wreck in July. The shock apparently sent Deborah, eight months pregnant, into labor, and Ronald arrived home on an emergency leave the day before Jennifer Meurer was born. The little family bought a trailer near Camp Lejeune; they were briefly happy. But Ronald shipped out for Beirut on Sept. 19. His tour was to have ended next week. Deborah, who had agreed to marry Ronald after a four-day, love-at-first-sight courtship, got two letters from him the day after he died...
Rounding out the activity in the southwest part of the Square is the Coolidge Bank (6) development on Brattle Square. The original building was demolished last winter, and bank officials have been operating in a trailer surrounded by the new structure's girders. The new bank was originally slated for completion by November, but now will not be finished until March. When it is built, the bank will also rent out office space...
...Nicodemus, Kans.-a cluster of trailer homes and collapsing limestone houses, seemingly marooned in the vast rolling prairie-a six-member team of architects and students sits in the township hall, patiently listening to reminiscences by some of the village's 50 remaining residents. The team is trying to fill in a "municipal fingerprint" of Nicodemus during the decades after 1877, when it was founded by a colony of emancipated blacks...