Word: stackers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...transmit facsimile handwriting and sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home...
Still the assault boats streamed toward shore. Kilted commandos, festooned with assorted demolition charges, fanned out across the bulky concrete submarine pens. A refitted American destroyer-the old four-stacker Buchanan-crammed with explosive until it was a vast time bomb, rammed the main gate of Normandie dock, only Atlantic dry dock capable of handling the great German battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years...