Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign capitals even before it reaches newsstands in some U.S. towns. Remote areas are still troublesome. After an irate subscriber in Tahiti complained that he was receiving his TIME in batches via bimonthly freighter from Nouméa in New Caledonia, TIME distribution men worked out a biweekly air-freight schedule; circulation in Tahiti has since climbed from 60 to 108. Readers in New Guinea, who long complained about slow service, now receive air-expressed copies before the date of issue, and today number a record 1,300. But one lone subscriber on remote Christmas Island still receives his copies...
...Transport Service to stop competing for passengers and cargo. In the future, MATS will function only as a "hard core" carrier transporting troops, weapons and missiles for the armed forces. This policy shift will force MATS to surrender the bulk of its military and VIP Government passenger and freight business to the private airlines, which will amount to an estimated $100 million a year...
...soaring delays and equipment breakdowns might be to give New Haven veterans a hand at the throttle. Alpert appointed a 24-year employee, Frederick J. Orner, 48, as chief of the road's operations and second in command. Orner, the road's general manager of freight service, had been demoted from assistant vice president in 1956; now he will take over the jobs of two Alpert lieutenants brought in from another road in 1958. Said Orner: "It is fairly obvious that the first thing to do is to improve employee and passenger morale...
...Freight carloadings continued to rise, jumped 2.4% above the preceding week and 3.3% over 1959 to hit 605,757 cars loaded...
...intense romanticism of his paintings is absent from his public personality. Back in the U.S. for a brief visit last week, he explained that his Spring with Machine-Age Noises series was painted in anger before leaving the U.S. For him it represents the noise of "jets, chain saws, freight trains, trucks, bulldozers" sweeping over a grassy patch...