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Railroads, unlike the billions of dollars worth of projected expressways and airports, are already in place; tracks, roadbeds and rights of way already exist. As the authors also point out, there is no more efficient form of transportation: a six-lane highway can move 9,000 people per hour (with an average car occupancy of 1.2 per trip); a single railroad track can transport 60,000 people per hour. Travel by electric-powered train is 23 times safer than by car, 2½ times safer than by plane-and largely without sins of emission. The equipment for a revitalized rail...
...code's limits, including 18,000 electrical-power engineers who had refused to work overtime and weekends. Still, there was fear that British unions, which have a reputation for striking at the drop of a hat, might stage a general strike. Said George Evans of the huge Transport and General Workers' Union: "Feelings are at a boiling point. You cannot slash a man's wages by 40% and expect to get away with...
...biggest deduction will come from the capital spending of nationalized industries ($600 million). The other major cuts include roads and transport ($490 million), defense ($395 million), health services ($277 million) and education ($240 million). The new budget clearly spelled the end of Heath's hoped for 3.5% economic growth next year; at best there will be no growth. Beyond that, Barber unveiled restrictions on installment buying of everything from refrigerators to automobiles. Consumers now will be required to pay one-third down and the rest within 24 months. Barber also imposed additional taxes on rental properties and ordered Britons...
Yugoslavia has a weaker national tradition than Cuba, and in the years preceding its struggle for independence, it wasn't dominated by a single neighbor. Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Russia all took an interest in Yugoslavia's mineral resources and in transporting goods along the Danube River. But after the Second World War the Soviet Union achieved a position of dominance, largely because of the assistance and inspiration it had lent to the Yugoslav Partisans--commanded by Josip Tito, a Croatian Communist--who led the only active resistance to the Nazis. The United States and the other western powers seemed...
...Welcome to Quang Due, the most remote place on earth," says the briefing officer. A quick 40-minute hop from Saigon in a C-130 transport, it is hardly that. But the filmy gray clouds wafting across the silent blue hills and the weathered faces of Montagnard tribesmen staggering along the airstrip with their worldly goods on their backs certainly convey a sense of primitive isolation...