Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special trains for returning workers within Italy to connect with international trains will be added on routes carrying migrant labor from Brussels, Stuttgart, Munich and other major centers. In addition, 192 special trains will be provided for Italian residents living elsewhere. Although voters must pay the cost of transport to the Italian border, government subsidies will allow them to travel free inside Italy and even get free tickets for ferries from the mainland to Sardinia, Sicily and other islands...
...France sought to justify its plane's loud takeoff by explaining that the pilot was trying to climb unusually fast in an effort to limit noise over populated areas. British officials told an annoyed Secretary of Transport William Coleman, who has allowed the planes to land only on a 16-month trial basis, that their takeoff plans had also been changed for this reason...
...Hughes, one must admit, was most worth our notice when he was dedicated to making himself unnoticeable. His was not a life with much substance in it, having been most conspicuous for his dream of floating large bodies not quite airworthy, such as Jane Russell and that plywood transport...
Differing with Healey are such key labor leaders as Jack Jones, chief of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and Len Murray, T.U.C. general secretary. They insist that a 5% limit is feasible, provided it is matched by import controls and strict regulation of prices. But the government is opposed to curbs on imports, believing quite rightly that they would only provoke retaliation by other nations and choke off any chance that Britain has of an export-led recovery. Healey also wants to loosen rather than tighten price controls to give British industry sufficient profits to invest more heavily...
...state-owned holding company called Finmeccanica. Now he is the subject of a man hunt by Italian police and Interpol. They want to question him about charges that one of his privately owned companies laundered part of a $1.6 million payoff when Lockheed Aircraft Corp. sold 14 C-130 transport planes to Italy's air force in 1971. Just before the scandal broke, Crociani emptied his penthouse in Rome and his two lavish country homes of all personal documents-and vanished...