Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devised a tactic known as "pursuit-of-a-target system" that puts relentless pressure on the North's transportation network. Instead of blasting a road or bridge and then leaving it alone for a while, the system calls for flyers to make continuous "multiple cuts" in roads and rail lines, trapping trains and trucks between the gaps and leaving them exposed to U.S. planes (see THE WORLD). Last week's strikes at Haiphong and Cam Pha, the North's first and third biggest ports, signaled a shift to the next step-isolating the ports by blasting roads...
Even so, the rail panel's recommendation was probably not much more than the unions could have got on their own -if they had been allowed by Congress to strike. For U.S. labor is in an aggressive mood; unions are demanding, and most often getting, more than they have been accustomed to. The 3.2% voluntary ceiling on wage increases that President Johnson promoted so vigorously only a year ago has gone the way of the great consensus; hardly anyone even bothers to talk about, much less follow, the 5% guideline that succeeded...
...being pumped from the islands at the rate of 56,000 barrels a day, and production is expected to reach 200,000 barrels a day by 1970. As each well is brought in, the oil rig, along with its high-rise cover, is moved along a rail to the next spot for drilling. Underground pumps send the oil through submarine pipelines to refineries on shores...
Stolen Sample. Much of the exporting begins by rail. Shipments go to friendly Portuguese Mozambique and its port of Beira. Since the rail lines from Malawi also run to Beira, outgoing Rhodesian goods are simply provided with Malawian or Mozambican certificates of origin before being loaded aboard ship. To show how brazen the practice getting around the U.N. rules has become, the Sunday Times reprints a Mozambique certification for 4,500 Ibs. of corned beef-a profitable product that the Portuguese colony does not manufacture...
...sake of drama or publicity, numbers are slapped on nearly everything-and the bigger the number the better. During July's two-day rail strike, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry issued an instant statistic that the city was losing $40 million to $60 million a day, into which total were cranked lost railroad fares and freight revenues, reduced restaurant and hotel receipts, smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway...