Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least in part to the wrong side, you may be forced into terrorism. To the German living in Nazi Germany, he could only exist as a member of the human race by blowing up everything in sight. Efficacy is not an issue. That German could have blown up banks, freight yards, and missiles indiscriminately. His only proof of existence to himself would have been continual destruction...
...Grand Coalition, the nine Socialist Ministers (out of 19) were the stars of the government. Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller guided West Germany out of its economic slump; Transportation Minister Georg Leber (no relation to Julius) began unclogging Western Germany's Autobahnen by forcing freight off the roads and back onto the deficit-ridden rails. Foreign Minister Brandt conducted an imaginative eastward-looking policy. Meanwhile the Free Democrats were moving away from conservative policies and closer to those of the Socialists. Last March, Socialist and Free Democrat members of the Bundestag joined forces to elect Gustav Heinemann as the first...
...terrible time with the names of things," he says. "The artist sees the world abstractly-form and color. Through his work, he hopes to get people to see the world as he does." From his cavernous studio in New Haven, he sees Snake Mountain on one side, a railroad freight yard on the other. As an artist he looks on both with an equal...
Every business student learns in one of his first classes that shipping by water is the cheapest but also the slowest way to move goods. Only those who go on to become freight managers discover that the longest delays nowadays do not occur at sea. Dock congestion around the world has become so common that general cargo ships spend about half their time in port loading, unloading or just waiting-even when the docks are not shut down by a longshoremen's strike...
...Minos Colocotronis, 50, has accumulated 30 ships totaling 1,000,000 tons in just about four years. Instead of placing orders with shipyards and waiting two or three years for delivery, he buys secondhand ships. This protects him against drops in freight rates between ordering and the time of delivery...