Word: ported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Iron and Steel Board now estimates that output per unit of labor in British steel in "probably only 50% of the U.S. level." In the port of London, there are 444 different employers of dockworkers--each one is too small to use large scale machinery, each one refuses to merge with the others. The British refer to their salesmen as "spivs," "bagmen", or "touts" and their salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which...
Early in the war, Lieut. Moorer and a seven-man crew were flying a PBY-5 reconnaissance mission out of Port Dar win, Australia, when they were attacked by Japanese Zeros. Wounded in the thigh, his plane riddled and burning, Moorer set the plane down in the sea and climbed into a raft with...
...call a halt to inflation-nurturing pay raises for 900,000 public employees. The unions, which were demanding another round of 25% to 45% pay hikes, responded with an unending succession of strikes and slowdowns. At one point this month, 300,000 telephone, railroad, postoffice, airport, merchant-fleet and port employees were on strike; even casino croupiers and street cleaners left their jobs...
...Chicago suitmaker, laid off 200 cutters and trimmed its production 35% for lack of imported fabrics. Textile and shipping employees in Houston and Boston had to go on unwelcome winter vacations. In Miami, a shortage of Scotch threatened vacationers while 200,000 cases lay in six ships in the port...
Effects of the strike will linger for weeks. When the I.L.A. struck for 34 days two years ago, it took a month to clear up the log jam of freight in New York. This time, said port officials, the pile-up is so much bigger-dozens of ships, unable to find berth space, have been anchored in the harbor-that eight weeks may be required to clear it away...