Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spokesman-thrusting aside Britain's square-shoed union leadership-has pushed forward to defy the Tory government's anti-inflationary program and demand a bigger wage packet for Britain's workers. He is burly, 6-ft.-2-in. Frank Cousins, 52, whose powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,300,000 members) last week published a resolution for September's Trades Union Congress that "rejects the principle of wage restraint and reaffirms the determination of the trade union movement, while prices and profits remain uncontrolled, to take such steps industrially as will ensure that wages...
There were, of course, threatening calls charging Du Mont with being "anti-union." The Transport Workers' brogue-nurturing Boss Mike Quill, appearing on Wendy Barrie's show over Du Mont's Manhattan WABD, took the opportunity to lambast Du Mont because "they showed unions in an unfavorable light." Indeed, the three inquisitive cameras played so deftly and pitilessly across the faces of real-life labor hoodlums that many of them looked as if they must have stepped out of Central Casting. Director Ed Schearer of Washington's Du Mont station WTTG ranged two cameras along...
Glaciers & Gliders. What put Icelandic across is its happy niche as a freewheeling outsider in the carefully regulated air transport business. Every other scheduled transatlantic line belongs to the International Air Transport Association, which sets industry-wide fares for one and all. Icelandic is outside I.A.T.A. With its lumbering, low-overhead DC-45, it flies round trip from New York to London for $469.20 (v. $522 for bigger lines), New York to Oslo for $472.20 (v. $590.60). Says Nicholas Craig, president of the line's U.S. subsidiary, which operates the transatlantic business: "For years the airlines have talked about...
...military side, the services argue that they now have a substantial small-war capability. The Army, while woefully in need of air transport, is streamlining itself so that it can quickly be flown to brush-fire war areas. The Navy's readiness to use Marine amphibious forces is part of the Navy's traditional role in "limited situations." And the Air Force's Tactical Air Command and some SAC units could be diverted to limited wars without limiting SAC's overall retaliatory mission...
...Transport Association President Stuart G. Tipton helped to drench me drys, and it looked as if the unimpressed committee was going to shelve the bill for another year. Aerial prohibition is not only unenforceable, said Tipton, but it would seriously hurt U.S. international carriers. Their passengers do most of the drinking, and if U.S. planes went dry, many Americans would fly on foreign lines...