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...small details still perfectly recollected. People who were once children at the head of a soup line remember that they learned to beg the ladler for a deep stir so they would not get only flavored water. Women began appearing on that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything...
...week later she was on her way. Arriving in Lima, Mrs. Nixon was greeted by Mrs. Consuelo Velasco and 6,000 people. The following morning, sitting beside the co-pilot in a chrome and plastic chair without a seat belt, she headed for the mountains in a C-130 transport plane. "It was the first time I'd ever taken off in a kitchen chair," she laughed. The nine tons of donated supplies included blankets, roofing, tools and even a custom-tailored dinner jacket. Some of these she saw already piled along the dirt airstrip when she landed...
...time, he recalls, "I remarked that sooner or later they would have to face up to the question of nationalizing American railroads. They all roared with laughter." Last week, in the midst of the Penn Central's financial fiasco, no one was laughing at the idea any more. Transportation Secretary John Volpe warned Congress that if the Administration's bill to guarantee loans for railroads fails to pass, and other roads fall into bankruptcy, the only alternative would be for the Government to nationalize the rails. The Transport Workers Union has already called for nationalization. Said James...
INTRODUCE A NATIONAL TRANSPORT POLICY. Such a policy should equalize subsidies and taxes among various forms of transportation and let the most efficient form prevail. A first priority should be removal of the legal barriers to creation of integrated transportation companies that could own railroads, airlines and truck lines, and move goods and people in the most economic manner. The fragmentation of transport today is costly. A shipper should be free to turn his goods over to, say, the Land-Sea-Air Transport Co., rather than having to negotiate separately with airlines, railroads, truckers...
...plot is laced with the usual colonial tensions and pretensions: Hoxworth feuds with a polyglut of races while his pineapple princess (Geraldine Chaplin) goes quietly mad. Every time the pace slackens, which is often, someone goes to sea, either to pick up field hands or to transport lepers to Molokai. The incessant ebb and flow is intended as a metaphor for the turbulent tides of Hawaiian life. But the real metaphor here is the pineapple, which in the good old gangster days was a synonym for bomb...