Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Federal Government tightly regulates other forms of interstate commerce, from transport to pharmaceuticals, the FPC's main function is to approve the wholesale rates at which the nation's 3,600 electric companies can sell power to each other. Even during his investigation of the blackout, Swidler had to rely on the voluntary cooperation of the companies he was investigating. Despite the growth of huge power pools, through which utilities trade electrical output, Swidler pointed out, the FPC has no authority to set or enforce minimum standards for system design, operation of generating plants, or intersystem...
...moment is not the war but the wherewithal to fight the war, not the Communist enemy but the beans and bread, bullets and billets necessary for the daily support of 170,000 American fighting men. Between the U.S. and its forces in the field lies a transport pipeline some 9,000 miles long. It flows freely until it hits the ports and beaches of South Viet Nam, where a dearth of deep-water piers, tugs, lighters and warehousing has created a bottleneck of giant and dangerous proportions...
...supplies are backed up in Saigon's warehouses and docks awaiting transshipment to other bases and field units. For the problem is not only unloading ocean vessels, but getting supplies out where they are needed. With a large part of South Viet Nam's road and rail transportation out of commission, most goods must be moved up the coast in World War II LSTs, which are able to disgorge their cargo in shallow water right on the beach. Currently only 14 LSTs, manned largely by Japanese, are available to do the job. But last week the Pentagon...
...over construction jobs. The Thais emulate their Seabee trainers not only in their specially designed belts and insignia but in their rough-and-ready work habits. And last week Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, General Praphas Charussatira, announced the payoff of the air-training program: Thailand is sending transport pilots to South Viet Nam, which sorely needs them, and is also giving military and police training to 1,000 young Laotians annually...
...Spain, most corporations now give the traditional ccsta, a hamper of food, wines and liquors, some of which cost up to several hundred dollars and require several men to transport. The British are big on food hampers, desk equipment, pen and pencil sets and cocktail accessories, have stepped up their overseas giving as part of their export drive. Germany's most common gift is the calendar, followed by leather goods, such metal goods as pocket knives and scissors and desk equipment. Everybody seems to be fond of giving such gadgets as a blinking alarm clock or a pocket vacuum...