Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organized a powerful national union, shouted and weaseled his way through a thousand fights with Communists and antiCommunists, employers and brother unionists, mayors and Presidents, and finally blundered into the strike that everyone said he lacked the courage to bring off. In the first twelve days of 1966, his Transport Workers Union brought America's greatest city to the brink of chaos. Mike Quill, 60, having thus made his name a household word and almost certainly prompted federal legislation to outlaw future strikes by public-service employees, died quietly last week in the bedroom of his Manhattan penthouse...
...grant the right to strike for better work conditions, but great disproportion exists when an essential working force like the Transport Workers Union can flout a court order, rob the labor movement of its dignity, and create hardship for New York City's populace [Jan. 14]. It is time for the union to curb its unrestrained economic appetite as well as its vituperative chief spokesman; otherwise T.W.U. may join Him at the end of the long White House leash...
...Ailing Mike Quill, the invective-hurling president of the Transport Workers Union, probably made his Last Hurrah. Faced with division and opposition within his own union, he seemed to hunger for a final epic fight, openly sought imprisonment. "He wanted to go to jail," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany noted with a wry jab, "and I wouldn't do anything to take away from his happiness." At week's end Quill was released from Bellevue Hospital and entered a private hospital, a sad and feckless parody of the youth who fought in the Irish rebellion. Worse still...
Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
Krupp has kept that pledge; the closest his complex now comes to providing the instruments of war is in its production of trucks and transport planes for the West German Bundeswehr. Patiently rebuilding from defeat, Krupp diversified to the extent that Krupp-owned concerns now turn out not only locomotives, aircraft, huge bucket dredgers and machine tools but even mineral water and orchids. Last year Krupp sales amounted to well over $1 billion, thus proving the point made by one of Alfried's corporate aides, who says pridefully: "Peace pays...