Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foolish, nearly plotless, and with all of its explosions timed to go off just a split second too late, Fantomas ends up hors de combat. In its livelier moments, the picture is devoted to a chase involving runaway automobiles, crazy motorcycles, a freight train, a motor launch, a whirlybird, a miniature getaway submarine and an inflatable raft. Making such movies must be more fun than a picnic. Seeing them turns out to be less fun than the funny papers...
...largest U.S. railway walkout since 1946 (when Harry Truman threatened to draft strikers) last week tied up passenger and freight trains in 38 states...
...clear, however, that Brotherhood President H. E. (Ed) Gilbert was angling to recoup the power lost by his union in 1963 when Congress, to break a negotiations impasse over featherbedding, enacted the first peacetime compulsory-arbitration law. The arbitration board subsequently approved the elimination from yard and freight crews of nine out of every ten firemen jobs. At least 18,000 jobs have since vanished. Reacting promptly to the walkout, Federal District Judge Alexander Holtzoff held that the union had failed to properly mediate its demands and ordered the strikers back to work. Instead of complying, Gilbert said that...
Free-world trade with North Viet Nam has dwindled drastically in the past year, but even a trickle strikes Washington as too much. On White House orders, the U.S. Maritime Administration announced this month that vessels hauling freight to Haiphong would be barred from carrying U.S. Government cargoes anywhere in the world. Last week the A.F.L.-C.I.O. maritime unions demanded that such ships be denied entry to U.S. ports. Otherwise, they warned in a tartly worded telegram to President Johnson, waterfront workers in 29 unions would boycott all ships owned by any foreign nation that earns "blood money" by trading...
...with the increasing popularity of jet air freight, along with the promise of truly gigantic cargo planes within a few years, U.S. shipping companies have finally, and belatedly, begun to battle back. The weapon on which they pin the most hope: a technique called container shipping. A seagoing adaptation of piggyback rail freight, container shipping involves packing cargo into steel, aluminum or wood containers of more or less standard size (8 ft. high, 8 ft. wide and 10, 20, 30 or 40 ft. long) at the factory, no matter how far inland. The containers are then moved by truck...