Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gang Warfare. While Reuther's U.A.W. wanted to eliminate some work, Gleason's heavily featherbedded longshoremen wanted to preserve some. Five times in the past eleven years they have gone on strike, and they have adamantly resisted shipowners' attempts to reduce the size of cargo gangs despite increasing automation. This year, backed by a presidential commission's findings that gangs could easily be cut from 20 men to 17, the owners offered a 34? hourly boost if the longshoremen would agree to a reduction. Last week the union answered by calling a strike that tied...
...Fidel Castro. But last week there was one blazing action in the waters off Cuba for which no one wanted to claim responsibility. It involved the 1,600-ton Spanish freighter Sierra Aranzazu, some 40 miles northwest of Great Tnagua Island in the Bahamas, bound for Havana with a cargo of garlic, cognac, chicken coops and plows...
Bucking and bawling, 150 spindly-legged calves were put aboard a Milan-bound TWA jet cargo plane at New York's Kennedy International Airport last week, the first of 100,000 U.S. calves bound for European tables this year. Most U.S. farm exports do not rate jet accommodations, but they are increasingly getting a first-class reception around the world. In fiscal 1964 the U.S. reported a record $6.1 billion worth of agricultural products, $1 billion more than in the previous year. Only $1.6 billion of the total was tied in with U.S. aid programs-and the recent rise...
Five times a week, Aerolineas Argentinas braves gale-force winds-often 70 m.p.h.-to deliver passengers and cargo to Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, on the tip of the continent. More fearsome are the 20,000-ft. Andes, stretching the length of Latin America. On the 30-minute hop from La Paz to one remote mountain town, pilots of Bolivia's Lloyd Aéreo line regularly thread their way through clouded-in peaks with the copilot calling out seconds on his trusty wristwatch. And then, there are the airports. More than 80% of Latin America...
...given Latin American nations some $85 million to improve airports and navigational facilities. The way things are growing, many more millions will be needed. At last week's Santiago meeting, the experts recommended the preparation of more and better statistics on Latin American passenger and cargo traffic, a bigger push for tourists and a stronger bid for more Aliania funds...