Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Awaiting him in Arizona was a new life in the sun with a nine-year-old widow named Hazel. But no commercial airline would undertake to transport Jack, the Baltimore Zoo's bachelor gorilla, from Baltimore to Phoenix. Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner saved the day by placing his personal DC-9 jet, Big Bunny, at Jack's disposal. Heavily sedated, the 18-year-old, 300-lb. animal was hefted aboard and deposited on Hefner's eight-foot elliptical bed as curious Bunnies clustered round. Something of Big Bunny's ambience may have rubbed...
...were high early on, when union leaders endorsed management offers of a 4% to 7% increase. Those hopes crumbled, however, when rank-and-file insurgents, demanding pay increases closer to 80%, rejected the package and led dockers off the piers. Jack Jones, head of the 1,500,000-member Transport and General Workers Union, could only make the strike official and protest lamely that "we are not trying to wreck the economy...
...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...
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...