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Established as an emergency defense port by the U.S. Army in 1943, it cost $55 million, has now been declared surplus property by the Pentagon; the Army wants to unload it, perhaps for as little...
...Boeing 707-321C jet freighters, each of which in one week's normal schedule can car ry coast to coast enough freight to fill 20 boxcars. Using prepacked freight pallets, special lift mechanisms and aircraft floors with built-in rollers, crews can load and unload jet freighters in less than half the time it takes to load a piston plane with one third the cargo capacity. Air freighters can offer overnight delivery on both coast-to-coast and transatlantic shipments...
Burgess wrings some wry laughs from his hero's bumbling efforts to unload twelve dozen fancy "drilon" dresses on the Russian black market. But alas, it turns out that Burgess takes his main joke seriously. He offers the perverted antique dealer as a disapproving symbol of Britain Today. Trying to be urbane about his (and England's) present predicament, the poor man says: "You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive." "Or like being impotent," says one Russian interrogator drily. The Englishman...
Stinking Copra. Last week a crew of six San Francisco longshoremen finished the nine-day job of unloading 7,000 tons of stinking, oil-laden copra from the Liberty ship Silvana. A tracked vehicle pried the gooey cargo from the holds, hoisted it into a vacuum tube that shot it into a conversion plant. A few years ago 18 men would have worked two weeks to unload the Silvana...
Similarly, it used to take six days to transfer a load of passenger cars off Matson's Hawaiian Motorist; the ship can now dock, unload and be back at sea in seven hours. Where 14-man gangs worked twelve shifts to load cargo containers into a Matson ship, a ten-man gang can now perform the complete loading job in just two shifts...