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Ship Design Specialists

Barge Industry Urges

President Bush To Sell

More Grain To Soviets

Citing both humanitarian and economic reasons, the nation's barge and towing industry has urged Presi- dent Bush to immediately grant the

Soviet Union's recent request for $1.5 billion in new credit guaran- tees to purchase U.S. grain. "It would allow the Soviet Union to purchase $1.5 billion in desper- ately needed U.S. wheat, corn, and soybeans at a time when the people of that troubled nation urgently need the basic foodstuffs America can provide. According to the Soviet's own news reports, people will go hungry—even starve—without this additional and immediate assis- tance," said Joe Farrell, president of the American Waterways Opera- tors, in an April 19 letter to Presi- dent Bush.

The American Waterways Opera- tors is the national trade associa- tion of the inland and coastal barge and towing industry—an industry that transports almost 60 percent of

U.S. export grain.

The barge and towing industry transports 15 percent of the nation's freight on the inland and coastal waterways, moves 30 percent of U.S. petroleum and petroleum products, and one-fourth of all the coal in the

U.S., in addition to its heavy grain- carrying capacity.

The Soviet's request would more than double their U.S. grain pur- chases through the Department of

Agriculture's Commodity Credit

Corporation.

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Hoffer Offers Short-Form

Catalog On Turbine

Flowmeter Products

Hoffer Flow Controls, Inc., Eliza- beth City, N.C., is offering a short- form catalog full of engineering in- formation on their turbine flowme- ter products and associated electron- ics.

Detailed information on precision in-line turbine flowmeters, mini- flowmeters for low flow rates, inser- tion flowmeters for large pipe di- ameters, and their new low-cost, industrial grade turbine flowmeters is provided.

A complete cross-reference of turbine flowmeter to electronics is included plus a cryogenic electron- ics and application review.

For a free copy of this comprehen- sive short-form catalog from Hoffer

Flow Controls,

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Design Director

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MagneTek Forms

Agreement With

Thorn EMI

MagneTek Defense Systems has entered into an agreement with the

Naval Systems Division of Thorn

EMI Electronics Limited of the U.K. for joint marketing, development and manufacture of its military elec- tronics products and Thorn EMI magnetometry products. This agree- ment covers these activities in the

U.S. and the U.K. Announcement of the agreement was made in

Anaheim, Calif., by Ed Rizzotti, senior vice president and general manager of MagneTek Defense Sys- tems.

MagneTek Defense Systems, a strategic business unit of Magne-

Tek, Inc., designs, markets and manufactures electrical/electronic power equipment for domestic and international applications.

Thorn EMI Electronics, Ltd., a part of Thorn EMI pic, is an interna- tional supplier of specialized elec- tronics for military and civil appli- cations.

The agreement was reached be- tween the two companies in order to combine the marketing and manu- facturing strengths of each and meet increasing worldwide customer demand for selected products cur- rently offered by both.

For further information on prod- ucts offered in this agreement,

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