Word: transporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airline executives, aircraft manufacturers, financial specialists and Government officials. Their reports provided the fresh basic material for Writer Gurney Breckenfeld and Editor Champ Clark. Breckenfeld, a World War II Air Force information officer, managed to get to Los Angeles to inspect the mock-up of Lockheed's supersonic transport a week before the strike started. A devoted air traveler, Breckenfeld tempers his enthusiasm with only one qualification. "Some airlines," he says, "serve better wines than others...
...decision to plunge into free in-flight movies, at a cost of $60,000 per plane just for the apparatus. Though the earphones needed to hear the movie sound track were pretty uncomfortable, and the programming was often dreary, the novelty lured passengers. But it jolted the International Air Transport Association, the fare-fixing cartel dominated by European lines, which couldn't stand the cost of competing. Delicately hinting that TWA would otherwise face harassment from foreign governments, or perhaps even suspension of its landing rights, I.A.T.A. persuaded a reluctant Tillinghast to go along with a $2.50 charge...
...shortage will probably get worse before it gets better. Among other things, Zambia's political decision to stop shipping copper through Rhodesia creates a bottleneck that may by year's end leave 150,000 tons of Zambian copper awaiting transport. To copper producers, the great danger is that higher prices and uncertain supplies may cause copper users to switch rather than fight...
...machinist's union represents 34,4000 mechanics and related ground service employees at Eastern, National, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines; the corresponding workers at American and Pan Am are represented by the Transport Workers Union, the same union that crippled New York City with a subway strike in January...
...mere existence of a rival union is enough to agitate the machinist's leaders, who because of their union's strong tradition of local democracy, are never took secure anyway. Add to this the fact that the transport workers' contract with the airlines expires in about three months, and that the rank and file of that union is still heddy over the New York victory (where they won wage increased of about 7 per cent), and the pressure on the machinists to come up with a fat raise is almost overwhelming...