Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skepticism, however, involves only the idea of floating; otherwise, there is little question that many jetports of the future will be water-based. This fall the FAA expects to unwrap a $35,000 study of existing proposals for offshore air port construction, which will include airports built on fill, on piles and behind dikes. Meanwhile, a number of cities in the U.S. and abroad have their own study projects under...
...badly needed third jetport include a floating airport constructed of aluminum modules and reached by helibus and Hovercraft. Architect Stanley Tigerman estimates it would cost a relatively modest $500 million. Closer to approval, however, is a $1 billion dike-protected jetport 35 ft. to 55 ft. below the water level of Lake Michigan and connected to the Loop by six miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles out wouldn...
...Mitsubishi. Britain's Scott Lithgow group two weeks ago landed its first order for an oilberg, a 250,000-tonner to be constructed for Anglo Norness, a Bermuda-based shipping company. The builder will launch the huge ship in two sections and weld them together in the water. "We don't know which half to christen first," says Ross Belch, a joint managing director. "We're not sure that we can afford two bottles of champagne...
...four years at Harvard right-hander Bob Kalinoski has sustained a broken collarbone, two torn cartilages, a broken finger, water on the knee, and phlebitis of the calf. "This may sound funny, but I have a strong arm," Kalinoski said...
...problems? "As long as I switched my weight to my left leg very fast and didn't stretch too far, it didn't bother me too much." Coach Norm Shepard finally caught on and Kalinoski was out--for three weeks. He came back and pitched J.V. while slowly developing water on the knee and phlebitis of the calf...