Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plans to make the R.D.F. rapidly deployable are still rudimentary. The Air Force once proposed to build 130 huge C-X transport planes at a total cost of $17.2 billion, but characteristically wanted to design a plane that could both fly between continents and hop from one battlefield to another, and that could carry heavy tanks and artillery yet land on short, rough runways. In May, the Senate Armed Services Committee, fearing that such a supertransport would take forever to build, all but cut off funds for development. The Air Force is now talking of building an unspecified number...
...national airline, quit working for four hours. Reason: they claimed the right to name the airline's new director. (At week's end the LOT employees accepted the government's appointee as "president" but insisted that their candidate actually run the airline.) Finally, transport workers in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz staged a two-hour warning strike to force the ouster of a local transport chief. Accused of corruption, the official finally resigned...
Unlike their workaholic American cousins, Europeans tend to see lengthy vacations as somehow part of the natural order of things. Thus unions are sometimes willing to accept a management offer for increased vacation time instead of a rise in hourly pay rates. As an official of Britain's Transport and General Workers' Union puts it, "What has normally happened is that the union has gone in to negotiate a 35-hour week and come out instead with a longer holiday...
...longer the invincible titans of air transport, major trunk carriers like Pan American, United, Braniff and TWA are now fighting off brutal competition from hosts of new airlines, some with only a few planes and a quick-thinking team of marketing men. Their business strategy: a sort of fast-food style of jam-'em-in, fly-'em-off air service. The upstarts have been spawned in large part by the airline deregulation drive that began during Gerald Ford's presidency and is likely to be accelerated by the Reagan Administration...
...business, competition from our allies is stunningly evident. From gliders to missiles, a dozen nations are seriously challenging U.S. technology and salesmanship. Yet the men from Lockheed, Boeing, Martin-Marietta and scores of other U.S. firms were upbeat. The Soviets were quiet, their stodgy aircraft, like the Il-86 transport, displaying a technological lag. And Ronald Reagan's new defense plans and action in lifting Jimmy Carter's "leprosy" policy (U.S. embassies were ordered not to help arms sellers) were a tonic that may nudge the $57 billion industry off a plateau, providing thousands of new jobs. America...