Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Victory, which did transport work at the end of World War II, is about 450 feet long and carries a cargo of 10,000 tons. It will have a crew of 45 to 50 civilians...
...previous years negotiations between the New York City Transit Authority and the Transport Workers Union have been deadlocked to the final hour. But Mayor Wagner, working closely with his city mediator, Theodore W. Kheel, and the president of the TWU, Michael J. Quill, was able to find a last minute solution...
...Cabinet went Thomas Fraser, who as Transport Minister infuriated Britain's freewheeling motorists by proposing a 70-m.p.h. speed limit and spot-check drunkometer tests. And out of the demanding home-secretaryship went Sir Frank Soskice, 63 and ailing, who intends to retire from politics by the next general election...
...Watched. Wilson's replacements added a youthful and vigorous left-right punch to his team. As Transport Minister, he appointed the redhaired, vivacious firebrand of the party's left wing, Barbara Castle, 54, who has been in Wilson's Ministry of Overseas Development. The most important shift involved the new Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins. At 45, he is the youngest member of Wilson's Cabinet -and a man to be watched...
...limitations. Transport workers and civil servants are still forbidden to strike, and the government can still ban any walkout by declaring that its motivation is "political." But the measure is unquestionably a major step forward, and it brought a few whiffs of other new freedoms. For the first time, Spain's censored press was permitted to follow the bill as it went through the parliamentary machinery. There was even discussion of its provisions on television. And, unlike the rubber-stamp parliaments of old, this year's session gave the bill a thorough going-over. For six weeks...