Word: transrector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monster. The heavy boosters are horsed around by ordinary cranes, but these are being replaced by a monstrous device called a transrector. Built by Hufford Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., it weighs 121,000 Ibs., costs $750,000. With its two engines and its five-man crew, it can lift a booster from deep underground and brandish it like a cigar. Its massive but sensitive arms can pin an egg down so delicately that the shell is not cracked, yet so firmly that the egg cannot be removed without breaking...
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