Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigating the possibility of securing a truck for agency use, in anticipation of next year's demands. "The stadium concessions will definitely need a vehicle to transport goods to the stands from the commissary (Briggs Cage)," the Newsletter stated...
...walkout began when Frank Cousins, boss of the Transport and General Workers' Union, turned down the Industrial Court award of an 8½-shilling-a-week raise ($1.19) for 36,000 busmen of the inner city, and nothing for suburban drivers. Cousins was in no tactical position to strike, but felt bound to do so anyway. He accused Prime Minister Macmillan's government of wanting a "showdown with labor," and Laborites demanded in the House of Commons that the government intervene immediately to end the strike. "It is for myself," replied Labor Minister Iain Macleod icily, "to judge...
...newcomers are grabbing business mostly by making themselves the "discount houses of the air." Brazil's big Real-Aerovias charges only $432 for the round-trip excursion flight between Miami and Buenos Aires, as compared with the $779 asked by International Air Transport Association members such as Pan American. Panama's Aerovias flies from Panama to Miami for $55, v. the standard $94-and serves Scotch highballs on the house. Last week, grimly preparing to meet the competition, Panagra got set to introduce an excursion fare of its own that will undercut I.A.T.A. rates...
From London last week came a solemn ruling: a sandwich is what Pan American World Airways thinks it is, and not what most other transatlantic carriers would like it to be. The decision was on Pan American's complaints that its competitors evaded an International Air Transport Association ruling against full meals on transatlantic economy flights by serving sandwiches that were actually sumptuous meals (TIME, April...
...Strongman Fulgencio Batista prepared his positions for the next round. As shoppers once more filled peaceful Havana streets, the Cabinet decreed all public-service employees subject to military draft. That meant that if the rebels again threatened a general strike, President Batista could order some 250,000 workers in transport, communications, power, banks, hotels, government offices to stay on the job and, if need be, shoot them for desertion. Another decree stiffened penalties for censorship violations; for newsmen, foreign as well as Cuban, up to one year's imprisonment; for newspapers and TV stations, heavy fines and suspension...