Word: piggybackers
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...Riding Piggyback. Relations between the two unions have long been uneasy and lately have further deteriorated. Jurisdictional disputes have flared as both unions have vied to organize proofreaders, stencil clerks and driver-mailers. The Guild refused to honor I.T.U. picket lines at three Toronto dailies last year and helped break the strike. In retaliation, the I.T.U. crossed the Guild's picket lines at two Hearst newspapers in Albany and helped break that strike; last May, after the Guild struck the Baltimore Sun, I.T.U. President Elmer Brown ordered his printers back to work...
...Rockaway Beach, Mo., 3,000 visiting youths were incited when police arrested and jailed a drunken boy for giving a friend a piggyback ride on his motorbike. As word of the arrest spread along the beach front, kids in madras shorts and sweatshirts began to crowd onto the main street, chanting "Let him out! Let him out!" Hundreds climbed to the roof of a nearby dance hall, began to pelt the police below with bottles, cherry bombs and rocks. Others broke in the windows of nine stores, turned over a patrol car. When 125 policemen from neighboring counties arrived...
...bottom, apartments-on-top building seems a promising new concept for modern metropolis dwellers and real estate operators. Because of fumes, taxi horns and all-night neon signs, the lower floors of most centrally located apartment houses have been a drug on the market. By giving apartments a piggyback ride on the top of office buildings, realtors can not only lift tenants far above the hurly-burly of the streets, but also keep them close to the city's center...
...motorcade to the airport. A commercial jet took him to Miami, and the family Caroline on the last leg of his odyssey to his two children in Palm Beach. But all that wasn't quite enough for Teddy Jr., 3, who greeted his father with "Carry me piggyback, Daddy?" "I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while for that," said Daddy with what newsmen gamely reported was a smile...
...Piggyback's big success naturally worries truckers, and Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa assesses trucking companies $5 for moving any trailer that made part of the journey by rail. Despite heavy pressure from the trucking industry, the Interstate Commerce Commission recently refused to reverse its 1954 decision approving piggybacking. The railroads expect piggybacking to double by 1970, eventually account for as much as half of all U.S. freight moved by rail...