Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flown 4,500 miles to Singapore, where equipment will be stockpiled as at Aden. With landing rights in India ended and those in Ceylon scheduled to go in two years, a new refueling base is under construction at Gan in the Maldive Islands. As the R.A.F.'s Transport Command beefs up with new turboprop Bristol Britannias, Britain's scattered garrisons will be stripped and more men concentrated in Kenya...
Foolish Son. Screaming ambulances arrived a few minutes later to carry Shapiro to the hospital. When he was gone, police took the doughty Premier, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, Transport Minister Moshe Carmel and Health Minister Israel Barzilai to the hospital in cars to have their lesser injuries treated...
...said. An arbitration board granted a wage boost to 32,000 white-collar employees of the Ministry of Health. The government promptly announced that it would refuse to pay the increased amount. Labor reacted instantly. "This is not the way to industrial peace," thundered Frank Cousins, boss of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Britain's biggest. "It is the way to industrial idiocy...
Most of the planemakers will probably have to find some new financing. Boeing Airplane Co., which rolled out its first civilian 707 jet transport last week and has a $2.1 billion backlog of military orders, estimates that it will have to borrow between $150 million and $200 million to meet payrolls and other costs. But after all the rumbles of wholesale layoffs shutdown plants and delays in plane deliveries, Boeing President William McPherson Allen seemed satisfied with the new targets. He expected to escape ''precipitous'' job cutbacks; he also predicted that both the Air Force...
...midweek, a 15-hour strike by 300,000. gas and electrical workers all but paralyzed all France. Industry shut down, transport became hopelessly tangled. Elevators and subways halted, refrigerators and stoves ceased operating. France sat down to a cold dinner to reflect by candlelight on the strikers' demands for 30% wage increases in the face of inflation's unsettling statistics; e.g., apartment rents have doubled in the past year...