Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The strike was as spotty and as disorganized as the independent truckers, who own their rigs and are fiercely proud of going it alone, but the action was damaging enough. Pickets closed giant fuel terminals in Niles, Mich., cutting off deliveries of gasoline and diesel fuel to southwestern Michigan and...
In Alabama, one trucker was killed when he was shot in the leg and his rig swerved off the road. The wife of another driver was shot in the chest and critically wounded. Governor Fob James angrily ordered National Guard tankers to transport fuel and considered putting some parts of...
The strike was touched off by the owner-operators' difficulties in getting fuel at fair prices. But the shutdown quickly brought to the surface deeper and long festering resentments. The drivers, who often operate on very low profit margins, felt they deserved fast financial relief. They argued that cumbersome...
That means it won't pay off its cost for nearly 30 years, not counting interest or inflation.
"If the U.S. Senate fails to ratify the SALT treaty, history will judge it harshly," declared Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. On the contrary, said Washington Senator Henry Jackson, "the U.S. would be better off with no agreement than this one."