Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary McNamara set the tenure record last week, his shop churned out a series of announcements that suggested the massive size and shape of his operation: the Defense Department 1) announced that Lockheed Aircraft had won the hotly contested $2 billion contract for the new C-5A military transport plane (see U.S. BUSINESS), 2) awarded to Western Electric a $21.5 million contract for development of an advanced Zeus anti-missile missile, and 3) promised a decision within 90 days on whether to begin production of an anti-missile system that could cost between $7 and $20 billion. The department also...
Still they come. In August alone, 259 Cubans made it across to the U.S. Two weeks ago the U.S. Coast Guard came upon two boats jammed with 67 refugees, including the chauffeur of Fidel's brother Ramon (an obscure bureaucrat in the Department of Sugar Transport) and Orlando Contreras, once one of Cuba's most popular singers, now declared "decadent." Said Contreras: "They wouldn't let me sing what I wanted to, and they wouldn't let me make a tour inside the country, and finally they put a 70% tax on my wages to make...
Opposed were the delegates from the country's two largest unions, the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Orated Clive Jenkins, leader of the superintendents' and technicians' union: "No party could enact legislation so obnoxious as this and continue to call itself either democratic or socialistic." Deputy Prime Minister George Brown rose to defend the measure. "There is coming about a recognition that we are partners in an industrial democracy," he insisted. His words won the day-and approval for Wilson's wages plan...
...every day, or every year, that a company gets a $2 billion contract in one swoop. Last week California's Lockheed Aircraft did-for construction of the world's largest transport plane, the C-5A. After months of deliberating over three proposals, the Defense Department gave the nod to Lockheed, whose bid for building 58 of the planes was lower by $250 million than the next lowest bid. Lockheed thus nosed out two tough competitors-Boeing and Douglas-to snare the aerospace industry's prize of the year. It will deliver the first...
Severe Blow. For one thing, the plan's success depends on shifting 600,000 workers from agriculture, mining, transport, aircraft, textiles and footwear into such growing fields as education, engineering, construction, public and other services. Even in the unlikely event that so many workers could be peace fully persuaded to shift jobs, the planners foresee a manpower shortage of 200,000 workers. To overcome that, they ask tradition-bound labor and industry to team up to boost the country's growth in output per man from its present 3% to 3.4% a year...