Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Commons debate on Dr. Richard Beeching's drastic reorganization program for the nation's ailing, anachronistic railway system (TIME, April 5), Labor, which decried the government's plans as "political" window dressing, set up a crescendo of jeers that thoroughly rattled the Tory advocate, Transport Minister Ernest Marpies. But the noise hardly concealed the fact that most Laborites wholeheartedly favor modernizing the state-owned railways, which cost the nation $500 million in 1962 alone. They claim that Beeching's plan, which includes closing down one third of the whole system, may do more harm...
...chances. Fearful that the proposed curtailment of service would put 70,000 of 475,000 workers out of work, the National Union of Railwaymen has called a three-day protest walkout for mid-May. Wilson, who is grimly aware of the damage dealt Labor by a crippling London transport strike before the 1959 election, attempted repeatedly last week to make the railwaymen call off their unpopular walkout, but made little headway. Prayed a Tory Cabinet minister: "Just give us that strike, and watch the votes pour into our laps...
Bitter Complaints. The trouble started six weeks ago when the CAB refused to okay a fare increase that had already been approved by the International Air Transport Association, the all-powerful airline trade group whose 90 member airlines set standard fares the world over. Since I.A.T.A. had approved the fare hike back in October and the CAB rejected it only two weeks before it was to go into effect, other members were understandably shocked and angered by the lateness of the CAB action. Foreign carriers complained bitterly that they had already printed new tickets, sent out new promotional brochures...
...like 70 other over-32 American stewardesses, is still flying under a waiver because she joined American before it established its grounding policy in 1953. The stewardesses' protest was no mere girlish outburst: they also seek higher wages and fewer hours in the new contract that the Transport Workers Union is now negotiating for them with American. American argues that it guarantees ground jobs that pay as well as flying ones to stewardesses after they are grounded-but, then, no one really expects them to stay around that long. Age limits are also in effect at TWA and Delta...
...reverses in Russia strained relations even further. The Duce had sent some Italian troops along to Russia to be in on the victory. When victory turned into disaster at Stalingrad in early 1943, the Germans blamed the Italians for capitulating too quickly. They took revenge by grabbing the Italian transport for their own retreat, leaving many Italians to freeze to death in the Russian winter. They also gleefully filmed Italians fleeing from battle. Mussolini received a letter from a soldier at the front: "Among the officers of both higher and lower rank a general feeling of rancor and distrust against...