Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into hours, for LaGuardia was hemmed in by fog and snow to within three-quarters of a mile's visibility, and the unrelenting snow had piled up on the big wings of Northeast's DC-6A. Flight 823's Captain Alva Marsh, 48, a 19-year transport veteran, stood by waiting for clearance. Finally Pilot Marsh checked the weather again, decided to go. It was 6:01 p.m. when the plane lumbered down the runway into the darkness, lifted heavily off the ground and, slowly gaining altitude, went into an inexplicable left turn over the East River...
...heavy overtime pay; the average factory production worker with a wife and two children took home an all-time peak of $76.54 a week, $1.30 more than the month before. Paychecks will grow even fatter. In February alone, hourly wages of some 500,000 U.S. workers in the transport and electrical industries will move up 1¢ to 3¢ under cost-of-living escalators. Warned BLS: "Rising costs and strong aggregate demand will very likely underwrite a continued climb in consumer and wholesale prices...
...that he is a rich Texan by debonairly putting out his cigarette in a glass of champagne. Texan Stack asks Lauren to go for a ride before going back to the office. She accepts. Some hours later, the ride ends in Miami, where the Texan's two-motor transport lands. He phones ahead to a local inn, and, lo, Lauren is led a few minutes later to a sumptuous suite where vases are filled with roses, tables laden with fruit, closets packed with gowns, shelves lined with hats, and bureau drawers jammed with whatever else a rich Texan...
...Thickets. Negotiating an agreement acceptable to all hands required a plunge through an incredible thicket of quotas, subsidies, double pricing and doctored transport rates in every country. German industrialists, cockily confident of their ability to outcompete anyone in Europe, were enthusiastic at the opportunity to win an even bigger share of Western European markets, but unenthusiastic at the prospect of being obliged to give French-style benefits-including three-week vacations-to their hitherto unpampered employees. The labor benefits, in turn, have great appeal to German unions, thereby vitiating German Socialism's traditional opposition to European integration schemes...
...salvage one gain from their spoilsless victory. They have sent two frigates to patrol the Gulf of Aqaba and have placed four chartered merchant vessels in service between Elath and East African ports. Turning even the Suez blockage to advantage, the enterprising Israelis are already offering all comers overland transport by truck and rail to the Mediterranean. This week some 500 tons of Ethiopian hides and coffee are scheduled to be transshipped to Europe over this route, which, while costlier than the Suez passage, can compete with transport around the Cape of Good Hope...