Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party assembled last week in Blackpool for its annual conference, the union men were in an angry, rebellious mood over Wilson's tough wage-restraint policies. Said Frank Cousins, boss of the huge Transport and General Workers union, who quit the Cabinet 15 months ago to protest the deflationary measures: "We are almost at the stage of accepting that the workers are on one side and this government is on the other...
Nixon favors tax incentives to bestir private enterprise to build ghetto factories and housing, to train the hardcore unemployed, to promote "black capitalism" and to reduce air and water pollution. As possibilities for budget cuts or stretch-outs, he has cited public works, the supersonic transport, the post-Apollo space program and federal highway construction. With the war's end, part of the fiscal savings should be used to replace the draft with a volunteer, paid "professional" Army. On other issues, Nixon and Humphrey split somewhat less sharply, but keep the economic argument alive. Items...
...expend a lot of effort promoting tourism, the 400 airline executives attending the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting in Cannes have proved to be poor tourists. Ignoring the pleasures of the Riviera, the IATA people have for two weeks been meeting morning, noon and night behind closed doors. Why the urgency? "This is the most important traffic conference in history," says IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold, nephew of the U.N.'s late Dag. "It takes place at the beginning of the era of real mass international air travel...
...will set passenger traffic policies for the next two years, was moving at piston-plane speed. In all likelihood, the conferees will be embroiled for another month in wading through an agenda that runs to 18 volumes and covers some 2,000 proposals involving routes, possible surcharges for supersonic-transport tickets and ways to meet growing competition from non-IATA charter airlines. The outcome of the major issue-fares-remains unsettled, but the U.S. lines are given little chance of winning their long-sought reductions. Other carriers, complaining of higher costs, are firm for the status...
Moving Along. For Boeing, which has recently run into some embarrassing design reversals in its supersonic-transport program, the 747 is moving along at a gratifying pace. In the 30 months since Chairman (then president) William M. Allen determined to go ahead with the project, Boeing has raised about $1 billion in financing. It has ordered components from 1,500 prime suppliers, cleared a forest near Everett, constructed a $200 million manufacturing and assembly complex and sold 158 of the $20 million planes to 26 airlines. Along the way, Boeing engineers had to lick serious weight problems that threatened...