Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Losing End. Since under the nationalization act the railway system was supposed to pay for itself, the British Transport Commission could not raise wages without raising fares and freight rates-which would antagonize other voters and raise the price of Britain's exports. Other workers got raises. But the railwaymen were made to feel that any demand for higher wages was an unpatriotic act. Four years ago "Big Jim" Campbell, amiable, earnest chief of the 400,000-man National Union of Railwaymen, said: "The men are sick, sore and sorry. They feel they are at the losing...
...over the classic "where-will-you-get-the-money" school. Railwaymen, said the court, ought to get wages that would put them "in no worse case" than workers in "comparable" industries. Said the court: "The nation has provided by statute that there shall be a nationalized system of railway transport, which must therefore be regarded as a public utility of the first importance. Having willed the end, the nation must will the means...
With the Churchill government's acceptance of the report, the union happily collected raises ranging from 70? to $1.12 a week for 60,000 workers in the lowest brackets, and a promise of other raises later. The boost will cost the Transport Commission an extra $22 million a year which it has not got−since 1948 the railways have already run up a $76 million deficit. Gone was the notion that the railways must pay for themselves. "How the money can be found is not my business," gloomed Transport Commission Chairman General Sir Brian Robertson...
...shall determine the traveling public's opinion later on," announced one huffy transport spokesman at the end of the first day's experiment...
Throughout industry competition brought more mergers (some 800) than in any other year since 1929. Battling to keep old markets, manufacturers cut costs and stretched production facilities. Scrambling for new markets, they turned out mountains of new products, ranging from Boeing's 707, America's first jet transport, to a jet-age, one-minute oatmeal for those who could no longer be bothered with the oldfashioned, two-minute kind...