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...Deputy Administrator David D. Thomas laid the blame on congestion. Said he: "What has happened is that the airports, particularly in the New York area, are finally approaching saturation." But pilots were telling their passengers the straight story: the FAA's air traffic controllers were staging a deliberate slowdown...
...agreed upon by New York, and new equipment is promised by the Federal Government. The stall is sending the airlines into tailspins. It costs $10 a minute to keep a 707 jet in the air, and pilots by contract cannot fly more than 80 hours per month. If the slowdown continues, the carriers will run out of pilots and the passengers out of patience...
Some 300,000 British railroad workers last week went on slowdown. They not only refused all overtime work but zealously began conforming with all the rigmarole of the 240 regulations in the nationalized British Railways rule book. Guards elaborately checked rail-car doors and couplings, meticulously counted the contents of first-aid kits in locomotives. Engineers took 25-minute tea breaks, stopping many trains on the tracks between stations. Timetables all but vanished in the resulting confusion, and for several days about half the country's passenger trains were delayed or canceled...
Sadeh feels sure that by January he should be able to detect an apparent speedup in the pulsar clock when compared with its rate this month-a clear indication that earth time has slowed by the same amount. If Einstein was right, that observed slowdown will total about 1/ 100th of a second per year. "If our measurements are accurate and we don't get this result," says Hoffmann, "then we scientists-and the Einstein theory-are in trouble...
Poor Lighting. Steel companies have experienced economic problems of their own. Hurt by the cost of new equipment, competition from foreign imports, and the slowdown of the economy during last year's first half, most steelmakers suffered sharp earnings declines in 1967. Sales of United States Steel Corp., the industry leader, dropped 8% to $4.07 billion; profits were down by 31% to $172.5 million. Business at most companies has perked up in recent months, but that is partly because of customer stockpiling in anticipation of a strike. Inventories built up by steel users now stand at 30 million tons...