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Last week Trucking Employers, Inc., representing nearly 1,500 trucking firms, announced a nationwide lockout in retaliation against scattered strikes by local Teamsters Union members. The lockout idled a quarter-million Teamsters and stalled trucks that carry 65% of the freight hauled on the nation's highways. If a swift agreement was not reached, the Federal Government appeared ready to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, calling for an 80-day truce, in which work would resume and bar gaining continue...
...conviction that man's story is unending and that come what may, man will prevail. The thought is unarguable, but its demonstration leaves the reader with characters who are merely symbols and a story that is an abstraction. After visiting Coaltown, readers may want to hop a fast freight to Grover's Corners, the setting of Our Town, whose scale was smaller but whose philosophy seemed almost as tangible as its strawberry sodas. Thornton Wilder remains engaging, thoughtful, a man to meet. Yet in this book, one longs for more substance, more authentic heart, more
...landlocked "port" on the other side of the Apennines, 40 miles inland at Rivalta Scrivia. Linked to the sea by its own railroad and highways, the new facility is designed to ease pressure on the existing port. The way it works, incoming cargo is unloaded in Genoa directly onto freight cars or trucks, then whisked to Rivalta Scrivia for customs clearance, sorting and warehousing. In that way, cargo handling costs could be eventually pared by as much...
Even if it gets Supreme Court approval, possibly this spring, the Penn Central track may not be as polished as it appeared when the merger plan was announced back in 1961. For one thing, the ICC has ordered it to indemnify some smaller railroads for freight losses they may incur from the merger. Bending to another ICC demand, the Penn Central has agreed to buy the bankrupt New Haven Railroad for $140 million, and that price may go up. Last month the ICC began hearings at which New Haven creditors complained that the price is far too low in view...
...exports exceeded imports by a record $82 million in the first nine months of 1966, and a predicted decline in employment never came. Nigeria's efficient, British-trained bureaucracy still provides most government services. And even though 6,000 Ibos quit their railroad jobs, Gowon has kept the freight trains on schedule, partly by hiring white engineers...