Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thinking that her next teaching job might be in the country far from public transport, Miss Hunter bought a snappy little red Fiat, signed on with a driving school, and hung out her L. After only 40 lessons, she was ready for a trial spin. But her jolting stops and starts so terrified her instructor that he got out of the car, remarking: "This is lunacy; it's suicide. I'm not going another inch with you. I've had enough." Undeterred, plucky Miss Hunter had another go two days later, sideswiped a five-ton truck...
...five biggest U.S. unions, only the Teamsters are larger today than in 1956; the Steelworkers, the Auto Workers, the Machinists and the Carpenters have grown smaller. Since 1956, the labor movement as a whole has lost 1.500,000 old members and gained 1,500,000 new ones. But, as Transport Workers' President Michael Quill admits, "we have organized the new ones because we compelled them, through closed-shop agreements, to get in line...
...drafted by Celso Furtado. 42, the economist responsible for creating an admirable development plan for the blighted, Communist-target states of the northeastern Atlantic bulge. Furtado projects a 7% annual rise in Brazil's gross national product. If all goes well, manufacturing is to grow by 11.2% annually, transport facilities by 8.8%, agricultural production by 5.7%. The program will require a $4 billion investment between now and 1965, of which private industry is expected to put up two-thirds, the government one-third...
...prevent war and preserve the peace should be starting wars.'' In London, 90 Tory M.P.s accused the U.N. of acting "contrary to its own charter.'' Even President Kennedy, who last week ordered the U.S. to begin shipping 2½-ton trucks, armored cars and transport planes to the U.N. Congo force, was reported to be alarmed at the disorder that arose from the U.N. shooting...
...helicopter has revolutionized the ugly little anti-Communist war in South Viet Nam. Using the whirlybirds for transport, government forces no longer remain immobile in fixed outposts. They now go where the Viet Cong goes...