Word: cargos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...READY RESERVE will be tapped for the trained men who are required almost immediately (such as troopship officers, Air Force cargo pilots, Army communications technicians). All Ready Reservists have served at least six months on active duty, now are obligated to drill 48 times a year, take field training two weeks each year. They spend the remainder of their duty period on ready status before being shifted to the Standby Reserve (and later to the Retired Reserve), from which they cannot be called back to duty unless there has been a congressional declaration of war or a presidential proclamation...
...frantically trying to get a plane ride back to Europe. "I've got 10,000 sons," he kept telling his wife, "and they're my responsibility." On Christmas Eve, 1944, Taylor gave his two boys, Tom and Jack, their presents, and finally was able to hop a cargo flight across the Atlantic. Just three days later, Taylor jeeped into Bastogne with the first elements of the 4th Armored Division. Taylor found McAuliffe coolly getting ready for dinner. "No damned reason to be worried about us," said McAuliffe. "We're ready to attack...
Potential Gains. U.S. shippers are slower to switch from time-tried methods of transport. Many a Midwestern grain exporter still prefers to barge his payload down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where shipping schedules are more regular and where the cargo can be put aboard 60,000-ton vessels that sometimes offer cheaper rates than the 15,000-ton ships plying the St. Lawrence. U.S. Seaway authorities want the Government to publicize the economic advantages of their route, but Congress is wary of favoring the waterways over the hard-lobbying railroads and truckers...
...flatcar piggyback trips last year. Barring a reversal in the courts, the new decision should enable the railroads to regain a substantial percentage of the nation's freight business. Railroad men see almost unlimited possibilities for a sensible idea with the awkward name of "containerization"-moving a sealed cargo container from door to door without any repackaging of its contents. Though the Teamsters charge that piggybacking is designed to destroy the trucking industry entirely, the railroads are already cooperating with truckers in building large piggyback terminals, can now go full speed ahead with plans for cheaper, swifter piggybacking service...
...Seafarers International Union, headed by freighter-sized (220 lbs.) Paul Hall. The S.I.U. centers its power on Atlantic and Gulf Coast tankers and other bulk cargo ships...