Word: freights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Require: 1) fingerprinted cards that would be verified at checkin; 2) complete inspection of freight, baggage and aircraft, search of all passengers at checkin, and rigid quarantine of all cleared passengers until takeoff; 3) airlines to be deprived of all interline privileges in order to prevent hijackers from joining a cleared flight by connection. Passengers who wish may fly "risk airline" and take their chances...
...come into a place where you're recognized and know the girls," he says. It is a relief from the forced comradeship of the cab. Drivers usually work with the same partner for six months, which can make for trouble. Says Paul Hadaway, a vice president of Navajo Freight Lines: "Rifts between drivers often start over questions of hygiene in the cab and build to criticism of driving technique. When you're in the cab with that fellow for weeks at a stretch, even the way he ties his shoes can become a major problem...
...from her pages is a vision in which men constitute a colonial power that exploits and suppresses the aspirations of women by whatever means necessary. . Although Millett modestly claims that her theory of sexual politics is "tentative and imperfect," it moves with the inexorable certainty of a long, lumbering freight train. It is full of strategically selected references to history, sociology, psychology, sexology, biology and literature. The material is written and assembled like a collection of incomplete Ph.D. treatises; the scholarship is carefully but forcefully tailored to prove her thesis...
...small details still perfectly recollected. People who were once children at the head of a soup line remember that they learned to beg the ladler for a deep stir so they would not get only flavored water. Women began appearing on that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything...
What the railroads need is much less Government involvement in freight operations and much more Government involvement in passenger operations. That may seem like an odd coupling, but it would be far more sensible than the country's present inequitable transportation policies, which have led to delays, debts and delinquencies...