Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business. The issues that divide the campaigners are remarkably few. Though Labor proposes the extension of nationalization in the steel industry and a state takeover of urban building land, road transport and water supplies, the substance of both major party manifestos agrees on the bread-and-butter issues that decide British elections. Both are for modernization, a 4% growth rate, 400,000 new housing starts a year, new antimonopoly legislation, and an overhaul of taxation and social security systems. The difference is one of philosophy and emphasis, with Labor predictably arguing for a stronger state hand in things, the Tories...
...competition is growing much tougher, and so are the tactics. In current negotiations about building a Franco-German turboprop transport, the French are holding out for a fifty-fifty split of the contract, while the Germans argue that they have ordered more of the planes and should get more of the production. Right now the tanks of four nations are facing each other across battle lines: the British Chieftain, the West German Leopard, the French AMX30 and the U.S. M60. The French, whose armaments salesmen are trying hardest, have sold many of their light AMX13 tanks, but are having trouble...
...promise of a three-hour flight between New York and Paris, the supersonic transport seems not to have broken the worry barrier yet. Governments worry about the high cost of developing it, which ranges from $13.5 million per plane for the British-French job to $40 million for a U.S. design that has not yet been settled on. Airframe makers worry about technical problems -from keeping fuel cool to developing new alloys. Among the most worried of all, as it turned out last week, are the world's airlines, which have already ordered 45 Concordes...
...illegal to transport lottery tickets across a state line. Powers' solution was not to issue tickets at all. Purchasers had to go to one of the state's two race tracks or 49 liquor stores, where, on payment of $3, a clerk activated a machine which exposed a ticket on which the bettor wrote his name and address. The machine thereupon swallowed the ticket and issued him an "acknowledgement," which presumably may be transported anywhere, sent through the mail, or even thrown away. The rolls of tickets were collected from the machines, microfilmed and stored in a bank...
...dedicates his skills to the preservation of African wildlife; the villain (Harry Guardino) is a poacher who devotes his energies to their annihilation. Told that the villain is an excellent guide, the hero in all innocence hires him to hunt down a pair of rare white rhinos and transport them to a game preserve, where they may safely multiply. The villain, of course, secretly intends to make off with the hero's pharmic rifle, a device that fires hypodermic darts, and bag the rhinos for a fence who has promised him $20,000 for the pair...