摘要: |
TEN YEARS AGO, a record flood crest was slowly working its way down the Lower Mississippi River; Stewart & Stevenson acquired EMDSI-Hunt Power LLC from Ito-chu of Japan; and Amherst Madison christened the mv. O. Nelson Jones to honor the company's former president, who had died the previous year. TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Port of South Louisiana dedicated its Globalplex General Cargo Dock; the Nashville Engineer District closed Kentucky Lock for three weeks for underwater repairs; and an empty oil barge owned by Magnolia Marine Transport Company blew up while being towed by the mv. Gene Neal near Plaquemine, La. THIRTY YEARS AGO, the casino paddlewheeler Diamond Lady was launched in Keokuk, Iowa; barge companies blamed the "catastrophic" grain rates on the U.S.'s decision to give the Soviet Union $1.5 billion in credits for grain purchases; and the towboats Yankton, Cincinnati and Frank C. Rand were sold at auction in Grafton, Ill. |