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...York City's WINS, which had brought only $425,000 in 1952. Says a top staffer: "Radio stations are the ideal small business. They can be picked up for very little cash-down. They cost little to stay on the air, have few failures and are easy to unload...
...Making a go of it, Lykes fought the Federal Maritime Administration to win the right to become the first U.S. line to design its own ships, though they are partly paid for by federal subsidy. As a result, each Lykes ship is so equipped that it can load and unload all its own cargo without help of dock booms, can "turn around" in port in as few as five or six hours. Efficiency applies at the home office too. Turman rises at 4 a.m., breakfasts with his staff before 7 in the bleak company cafeteria. The early schedule...
...Rifles, the nation's 1,600-man army. Still commanded by British officers two years after uhuru, the African soldiers interpreted de-Africanization to mean that they would not gain the promotions they had been promised. Locked and loaded with resentment, the Rifles needed only a touch to unload through the muzzle. Four days later, on the tiny island of Zanzibar, 221 miles off the East African coast, a finger began moving toward the trigger...
...Atlantic, but it has failed to attract the expected commercial traffic. The Seaway's troubles stem from a combination of engineering shortcomings and poor financial planning. For one thing, the Seaway is too shallow to accommodate large freighters. Most of its ports are ill-equipped to load and unload ships, and passage through the 15 sets of locks is tedious and slow; the average ship takes ten days to travel from Chicago to Montreal. Because the waterways freeze over for four months each winter, shippers cannot rely on year-round use. Finally, tolls make shipping by water almost...
...jungle airstrip was hardly big enough, but a Colombian air force DC-4 touched down to unload a most unmilitary cargo: beds, trunks, dogs, chickens and 64 stony-faced peasants who had been strapped in the bucket seats. The peasants were homesteaders arriving at the outpost town of Florencia to start a new life in Colombia's rich but remote southwest. By sunset, the air force plane was back in Bogota, 240 miles away, with a load of hardwood...