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After an eight-day rampage of terror and intimidation, many independent truck owners lifted their seige of major highways last week and accepted an Administration offer that will allow them to charge-and force consumers to pay - higher prices for shipping goods. The strike dangerously disrupted road transport, closed factories and mines, threw at least 100,000 people out of work, and created scarcities of food, gasoline and othe critical supplies throughout the East and Midwest. Though truck traffic began to pick up slowly at week's end, bands of angry militants, dissatisfied with the agreement continued their harassment...
Shootings, beatings and other violence flared along major highways last week as independent truck owners sought to tie up the nation's road transport to protest the rising price and scarcity of diesel fuel. Rejecting an Administration offer aimed at satisfying their complaints, the loosely organized independents called a nationwide strike that has disrupted shipments of steel and other materials and threatens some cities with food shortages...
Oddly enough, a reopened canal may well have less effect on the transportation of oil, its old staple, than on other materials. Israel operates a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba, and Egypt is about to build a pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Suez, skimming off some of the Persian Gulf oil that used to be shipped through the Suez on tankers. Moreover, some oil company officials claim that the cheapest way of all to transport oil is in supertankers too big to run the canal. Even so, a third of the world...
...SECOND MONTH I was in Vietnam I took a transport plane from Bien Hoa up to Cam Ranh Bay to conduct some business for my company. I eventually had to go to Nha Trang and Cam Ranh was the staging point for traffic flying north...
...have a handicapped preschooler who must be transported several days a week (90 miles a week) for therapy. We need a large car to transport her wheelchair and a carriage for our six-month...