Word: freight
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...rejected if it strays even slightly from the subject of sports. The first victim of this policy was Klaus Bednarz, a correspondent for the West German network ARD. His report, titled The Olympics and Propaganda, was turned down flat by officials, so he had to send it by air freight...
...president and later chairman of United Airlines for 32 years (until 1966) made it the world's largest commercial air service; after a long illness; in Glenview, Ill. With the backing of Planemaker William E. Boeing, Honolulu-born Patterson in the 1930s put together four small freight carriers to form an airline that now serves 112 U.S. and Canadian cities and boasts annual revenues of $3.4 billion. Among Patterson's innovations: hiring what he called female couriers, forerunners of today's stewardesses...
Some white merchants successfully defended their buildings with guns. American Freight System Inc., which has a large terminal in the area, sent employees to the rooftops to stand watch during the worst nights. "We're pretty well stocked here and ready to fight a war if we have to," said one driver, Rodney Connell. Brothers Alan and Jeff Kaufman sat in their antiques store with a shotgun and pistols to drive off looters. Then some white teen-agers offered to defend the place if they,were given guns and $100 each. Said Alan Kaufman: "They were fantastic. I gave...
...back-pocket onomatopoeia for the distinctive sound of the beat-means no harm, carries no heavy freight, sets out to make you happy and keep you dancing. Ska is the no-account stepfather of reggae, the blues-inflected Jamaican soul popularized Stateside by Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley and seen to splendid advantage in The Harder They Come, one of the best and most popular cult films of the '70s. Reggae shouldered a lot of political burden and social outrage, sometimes sounded almost introverted in its island concerns and religious visions. By contrast, ska is flat-out party music...
...sewing room and stamping plant, it now became an assembly plant. In a good year, like 1973, it could pour 511,000 cars out onto the second-floor inspection deck. But in bad years, which most have been lately for Chrysler, the plant cost a bundle. It had 32 freight elevators to carry people and parts from floor to floor. In winter it leaked heat from a thousand windows. Says a Chrysler production man, Jim Caton: "This place goes back to when coal was $2.50 a ton, when miners got $32 a week, versus about...