Word: transporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little homes in Queens, from Harlem's tenements to the farthest reaches of Brooklyn, the bustle and excitement that symbolize the world's greatest city became a slow-motion mockery of itself. For the first time in history, the huge city was with out any mass public transportation, which had been shut down by a strike of its 36,000-member Transport Workers Union. The 134 miles of subway tubes, normally jammed daily with 4.6 million passengers, stretched silent and empty beneath the city; the 2,200 buses that daily haul one and a half million people over...
...Michael J. Quill, 60, an intransigent, fork-tongued man with a shanty Irish brogue who is founder and president of the Transport Workers Union and a raving Anglophobe who fought in the Irish Revolutionary Army. He had a meager childhood on a County Kerry farm, immigrated to the U.S. in 1926, sold religious pictures in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, later became a ditchdigger and a change maker in the New York subway system. Quill was a loyal Communist-liner when he founded the T.W.U. in 1934, once said, "I'd rather be called...
Foreign Encroachment. What the carriers are fighting for is a share in the world's fastest growing air-transport market. The volume of air traffic between Japan and the U.S. has nearly tripled in five years, in part because of the deepening U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. The U.S. airlines are also struggling against foreign encroachment on their domestic business. Japan Air Lines' new rights, says American's Sadler, are "the latest in a long series of moves that have changed completely the role between domestic and international carriers. Years ago, the international carriers served the coastal...
...power. Of the 10,000 built from 1936 to 1946, some 5,000 are still in the air, faithfully serving 174 airlines in 70 countries. In the heart of the jet age, the DC-3 still accounts for nearly one-third of the world's air-transport fleet. It has always thrived on abuse. Designed for 21 passengers, it has carried as many as 72. During the 1948 Berlin airlift, one set down on the runway with 13,500 lbs. of steel beams -twice the safe maximum load-blowing all three tires. The authors, both U.S. Air Force officers...
When John V. Lindsay became Mayor of New York City on January 1, the strike deadline laid down by the Transport Workers was only five hours away and negotiations had already been broken off. Twelve days later, Wall Street businessmen are still bitch-hiking to work, and garment center laborers aren't getting to their jobs...