Word: inlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other maritime workers, 45,000 railroadmen, 48,000 truckers. With 855 ships tied up, U.S. ocean shippers were deprived of 161 million tons of freight. The nation's strangled lines of trade also cost highway carriers 9,000,000 tons of business, railways 7,000,000 tons, and inland waterways 500,000. With exports off by $60 million a day and imports off by $40 million, every day of the strike wiped out $20 million of the U.S. foreign-trade surplus...
...year of Churchill's life. Sixty Highland bagpipers from different Scottish regiments piped the coffin down to the wharf at the foot of Tower Hill where Beefeaters in full uniform stood guard. Against the backdrop of Tower Bridge the vast Pool of London lay as still as an inland lake. Across the river great cranes bowed low in touching, mechanical precision. To the piping of a bo'sun's whistle, the coffin went aboard the Havengore, a Royal Navy launch...
...defray the additional $5.8 billion that will be needed to finish the 41,000-mile federal highways system. It also asks $240 million more in taxes on aviation fuels and the flourishing air-freight business, and a continuation of the 5% surcharge on airline passenger tickets. Truckers, airlines and inland-waterway operators, the last of which would have to pay a new fuel tax amounting to $7,000,000 a year, will probably oppose most of the measures, as they have before. If Congress approves the new charges, however, the operators may pass along many of them to their customers...
...roadbed for conventional or elevated equipment would be best located along a line some distance inland from the coast. Land would be cheaper here and special access routes could be built to serve the major cities...
Controlled Chaos. Albright also insists that live models be present while he paints. Among them have been a Mexican-Indian fisherman, a union leader and onetime bootlegger, an 81-year-old Rosicrucian monk, and Mary Lasker Block, the wife of a vice president of Inland Steel...