Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concentration on Hawaiian shipping made Matson a helpless victim of six Pacific ocean-going unions. Even though its Hawaii run was not subsidized by the U.S. Government, Matson had to follow suit when subsidized U.S. shipping lines gave in to frequent wage demands to avoid strikes. Result: labor now accounts for half of its operating costs on freighters and even more on passenger liners. High operating costs have also led to freight-rate rises of 48% since 1957, prompting many Hawaiian businessmen to blame Matson for the island's dizzily high prices and to shop for alternate shipping lines...
Liner Trains. Like most U.S. railroaders, Beeching also wants to carry more freight and fewer passengers. Hoping to attract more business from industry, he will ask for $280 million to start "Liner Train" service, in which piggyback trains would run between major British cities on frequent, fast schedules. Under Beeching's plan, which Parliament is expected to adopt, the comfortable sound of the puffing billies chugging through the British countryside will become a thing of the past. Beeching is willing to trade it for the rustle of pound notes...
When Sweden's Count Bernadotte came to dinner one evening during one of the frequent remodelings of the Rosenthal manor. Lavinia set the table on a high scaffold. The guests sat precariously eight feet above the floor-eating, naturally, off Rosenthal china...
...problem of alcoholism, but this topic, once brought to the fore, is subject to more manhandling than any other. Beyond a certain point, the story is finally and irrevocably lost, and the movie becomes a dreary plug for the Alcoholics Anonymous, with numbered lessons, scraps of psychology, and frequent slogans. "At first it will be hell, but you can do it." "Your wife will want you to drink along with her; she'll resent your staying sober." "Listen--for twelve years I was drunk, and for fourteen years I've been sober. It's two different worlds...
...driving after a suspended license? Didn't they indicate a "public be damned'' attitude? Roosevelt thought not, explained one of the violations was for a blown headlight fuse-and anyway, he got his license back after he became the "proud graduate" of a school for frequent traffic offenders. What. Prouty asked, about some $26,000 in taxes that the Internal Revenue Service claimed Junior owed in 1958? A misunderstanding, insisted Roosevelt, but he would happily pay the assessments...