Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheer power and wealth, few African males can match the market mammy, that gigantic woman of commerce who controls much of the transport and the trade in textiles, food and hardware in both Nigeria and Ghana. In Lagos, bankers tell of one hefty woman who cannot write her own name, but can get a $560,000 letter of credit whenever she needs one. In Accra, the mammies have been wooed and feared by politicians since independence, and no government has managed to tax them effectively. "They can't read or write," says one Ghanaian journalist, "but they can damn...
...salmon aloft, regulatory agencies and Congress, to which the regulators are responsible, have authority over safety rules, routes and fares. Last week Washington's Warren Magnuson, chairman of the Senate aviation subcommittee, announced that he will open hearings next month on "the deteriorating situation in the air-transport industry." Congress and the regulatory agencies, he said, have a "responsibility to take remedial action." Airline executives do not intend to wait. Within a fortnight, they plan to announce a major cut in transcontinental schedules...
Tojo's own family are a case in point. His eldest surviving son, who is one of Japan's leading aeronautical engineers, drafted the twin-engine YS-11 transport, which has re-established Japan in the international aircraft business. The other surviving son is a Japanese air force colonel. Tojo's three daughters are all married and comfortable. His youngest daughter, Kimie, who studied international relations at the University of Michigan, is married to an American consulting engineer based in Tokyo...
...bargains exist because Icelandic refuses to join the International Air Transport Association, the rate-making cartel. As a result, only New York's John F. Kennedy Airport and Luxembourg international officially allow Icelandic to use their facilities for transatlantic jet flights. (The U.S. makes this concession because NATO has American-manned military bases in Iceland; Luxembourg's airline does not belong to I.A.T.A.) Icelandic manages to fly CL-44s out of five other European cities, but does so through a clever device. It charges I.A.T.A. rates on regular flights from, say, London or Oslo to Iceland; then...
...Bonuses. More than anything else, the plan illustrates what has been lacking up to now. The company will establish four permanent social-service centers and one mobile center, which will offer child care, preschool training and adult education. Austin promised better medical care and toilet-equipped buses to transport workers between home and the citrus groves. He said in addition that the company will have "modern and sanitary" dormitories and new homes for its seasonal workers, and will raise the wages for 300 full-time grove workers by 23%, to a top of $2 per hour. The roughly...