摘要: |
TEN YEARS AGO, after being laid up for nearly five years because of the economic downturn and after $10 million in upgrades, the American Queen returned to service on the waterways; an unscheduled 15-day closure of Red River Lock 1 in April cost local businesses several million dollars; and Gene Higginbotham was named executive director of the Arkansas Waterways Commission. TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Corps of Engineers announced a pause on major projects while their costs were reviewed; and Osprey Line LLC moved 15,000 containers in its container-on-barge operation along the Gulf Coast during the previous year. THIRTY YEARS AGO, demolition began of a historic 163-foot wooden grain elevator in Port Arthur, Texas; the bodies of three crewmen missing from the sunken mv. St. Jude were found in the Mississippi River near Vacherie, La.; and high water and debris caused a 150-foot section of floating dock to break away from the Coast Guard base in St. Louis, Mo. |