Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known that the company produces about one-third of all wine sold in this country. Gallo's pre-tax profits in 1971 reached $35 to $40 million, according to the Nov. 27 1972, issue of Time. Gallo's economic strength makes it possible for the company to recruit and transport strike breakers, to conduct large0scale public relations campaigns, to bear the costs of temporary production disruption due to strikes and to involve itself in drawn-out court cases. These are all expensive operations which companies with less market control and lower profits could not afford...
...into a tornado, he has been scared. "It was the most frightening thing that ever happened to me," he confided last week to the London Daily Mail, adding that the pilot had not seen such weather in 26 years. Since then Getty has had to rely on such humdrum transport as yachts, private railroad cars and limousines. But safety can be monotonous, and when Getty decided to move permanently from England to his Malibu, Calif., estate this spring, he took his life in his hands. "I will go on a jumbo," he said with bravado, "and I shall probably treat...
...budget right down to scheduling his private jet and arranging overtime for the butlers in the baronial 100-room Playboy mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast. But Arnstein's world came apart when she was arrested by federal narcotics agents last March and charged with conspiring to transport cocaine from Miami to Chicago. Stoutly denying her guilt, even after conviction last November, she was still engaged in the process of appeal when she was found dead last week, at 34, in a 17th-floor room of a hotel on Chicago's North Side. Coroners, who found lethal...
...Even One. There are also limitations in the transportation field. No commercial aircraft operating within the U.S. can be registered to foreign nationals. The Civil Aeronautics Board is empowered to veto the acquisition by aliens of more than 10% of the capital or voting stock of any U.S. airline. Similarly, only ships that are American-built, -owned and -registered can be used to transport freight or passengers between points...
...blunting Germany's final assault on France in World War I. Practically the entire Royal Navy was kept in port for twelve days nursing more than 10,000 cases, including the Commander in Chief, His Royal Highness King George V. The flu-ridden crew of the American transport Otranto was too weak to abandon ship after colliding with another vessel during an Atlantic storm. It sank with a loss of 431 lives. Aboard the troop ship Leviathan, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt suddenly keeled over. From an overcrowded Chicago hospital ward a deathly feverish...