Word: tramways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Project Manager Strandberg was responsible for ordering $25 million worth of heavy equipment on his own say-so. He built a network of 26 radio stations to link 25 work camps with shelters for 6,500 men, set up a mile-long aerial tramway to haul 20-ton loads to inaccessible work sites, established what was then the world's biggest helicopter supply fleet outside the U.S. military. When he had manpower and equipment troubles, a phone call to Boise straightened them out. "My top tunnel man," says Strandberg, "was shifted from a job in Afghanistan to my team...
...Cannon Mountain in Franconia there are many trails easily reached by the 2000-foot Aerial Tramway. Laconia, Intervale, Mt. Sunapee and Peterborough also offer good skiing...
Some of New Hampshire's finest skiing may also be found on the other side of the White Mountain, in the Franconia region. Here on Cannon Mountain lie numerous intermediate and expert slopes easily reached by the 2,000-foot Aerial Tramway. The lower half mile of the Cannon trail was widened to 125 feet and two new trails added during the summer...
...Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...
Meanwhile, Hong Kong's other utility unions-telephone, light, power and gas-restively awaited the outcome of their own demands for wage increases. "We must give moral support to the tramway workers," said one union boss. "If they fail we are bound to collapse. Our strike is not political; we have wives and children to care for." At week's end, Hong Kong's colonial government announced that it had assumed sweeping emergency powers, including the right to requisition manpower, bar strikes and lockouts. This may have pleased Hong Kong's employers, but the chances were...