Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airport construction. Now the Government wants out. The U.S Secretary of Transportation, Alan S. Boyd, recently proposed that, except for special cases, airports and airlines do all heir own financing, cover the cost of revenue bonds by means of higher ticket taxes and new taxes on fuel and cargo. Meanwhile, with expansions necessary and costly new construction planned, airports are already increasing landing fees and other charges...
Winter-grown green peppers, grapes and watermelons from Lebanon now reach dinner tables in London almost as rapidly as in Beirut. They get to Covent Garden, where the melons fetch 50?, v. 8? in a Lebanese bazaar, by means of cargo planes and because of the sagacity of a 40-year-old Lebanese with some slick trading talents...
Revenues last year reached $15 million, but Abu-Haidar needs even more money if he is to fulfill his dream of a round-the-world cargo route. The run would include Los Angeles and New York; to get landing rights in those cities, Abu-Haidar would make a trade that would let Pan American bring its all-cargo service into Beirut. "If they don't agree," smiles Abu-Haidar, "there might be a certain delay in Pan Am's plans as far as Beirut is concerned...
...airports and harbors, built for waging war but equally suitable for handling peacetime traffic. In Thailand, U.S.-built military roads can be used-indeed already are being used -to get native farm products to market. Similarly, says John K. Wilhelm, an American AID official in Saigon, the heavy ocean-cargo volume generated by the war "might simply be transferred to civilian shipping" once hostilities cease...
...will always seek it; they are not likely to let cultural or racial bonds stand in the way. What is more, the African brokers in the slave trade--of whom there were tens of thousands--were not restrained by knowledge that perhaps 40 per cent of the human cargo in Middle Passage perished before reaching the Western Hemisphere. In short, I would suggest most firmly that the Black Experience is truly nothing more than a valiant of the Human Experience. Put another way and rather cynically, power is what power does...