Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...safe transport of these prisoners to Algeria or Cuba...
...losing $100,000 each day that the pipeline remains closed. Now tankers must carry the bulk of oil produced in the Arabian Gulf around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe. The consequent shortage of ships has caused a tripling of charter rates, making it much more expensive to transport heating oil to the U.S. In parts of Europe, fuel-oil prices have more than doubled in the past year...
...brought to light, mostly during the past quarter-century. He notes that barnacles hitchhike to new climes by attaching themselves to whales, sailfish and ships' bottoms. Like some commuters who are forced to transfer from train to bus or taxi, Adélie penguins migrate using an integrated transport system. They toddle across the bleak Antarctic icecap on foot, swim in the icy sea and cruise lazily on drifting ice floes...
...fifties, when nothing happened and everyone fell asleep. The setting is Indianapolis (of all places), and the historical-social landmarks of the narrative include Eisenhower, Brando, Joe McCarthy and the Red Menace, Dave Brubeck, Time, Moral Re-Armament, the Saturday Evening Post, Chet Baker, frats, the first jet transport, Roger Bannister and the four-minute mile, the "new mature Sinatra," and drive...
Many of the unemployed specialists are eager to use their skills to help solve some of the nation's housing, pollution or transport problems. But the Government has yet to supply much money to help defense companies convert for peacetime battles, or to assist laid-off specialists in transferring their skills to other areas. Washington could indeed do more by awarding to defense firms some major research contracts in urgent civilian areas or by sponsoring retraining and relocation programs for the overskilled jobless; present training programs are directed almost entirely at the hard-core unemployed. Educated manpower...