Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, he recalls, "I remarked that sooner or later they would have to face up to the question of nationalizing American railroads. They all roared with laughter." Last week, in the midst of the Penn Central's financial fiasco, no one was laughing at the idea any more. Transportation Secretary John Volpe warned Congress that if the Administration's bill to guarantee loans for railroads fails to pass, and other roads fall into bankruptcy, the only alternative would be for the Government to nationalize the rails. The Transport Workers Union has already called for nationalization. Said James...
...plot is laced with the usual colonial tensions and pretensions: Hoxworth feuds with a polyglut of races while his pineapple princess (Geraldine Chaplin) goes quietly mad. Every time the pace slackens, which is often, someone goes to sea, either to pick up field hands or to transport lepers to Molokai. The incessant ebb and flow is intended as a metaphor for the turbulent tides of Hawaiian life. But the real metaphor here is the pineapple, which in the good old gangster days was a synonym for bomb...
Other countries sent transport planes winging to Lima in what the Peruvian press described as "a world air bridge." Tents and medicines arrived by air from Russia, powdered milk from France, more medicines from Spain. French President Pompidou announced a na tional campaign to aid the grief-stricken nation, and Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito asked his countrymen to send contributions. More than 200 Chilean families offered to adopt some of the estimated 5,000 orphaned children. Aid also came from Fidel Castro, who seeks to make common cause with the Peruvian army's radical reform policies. Along with...
...other industries, financially ailing companies are also turning to Washington for help. Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee voted $200 million in contingency funds for the C5A super-transport in order to aid cash-short Lockheed Aircraft Corp., the nation's largest defense contractor. The week before, by awarding the Air Force's new B-l bomber contract to North American Rockwell, a company with little recent bomber experience, the Administration lifted the threat of layoffs hanging over thousands of Southern California aerospace workers in an election year. Now Wall Street brokerage firms are asking Washington...
Alas, I was never to possess him. He appeared only in my imagination, and when he did not come to the wedding, I thought I would simply perish. Daniel pretended to help me find him, but he was desperately intent on keeping us apart. Finally, in a transport of sorrow, I decided to return to Rome. Ah, but then at the airport I saw the adorable autoball player and followed him to a hotel. When I learned he was not my Gregory after all, my slender dream shattered into a thousand meaningless fragments...