Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the National Coal Board warned that a third of the mines were endangered by flooding or underground fires, pickets allowed safety crews to go into the shafts for maintenance work. Nonetheless, the strike was effective. Britain's huge Transport and General Workers' Union threw its weight behind the miners by refusing to deliver coal to electrical generating stations...
After an eight-day rampage of terror and intimidation, many independent truck owners lifted their seige of major highways last week and accepted an Administration offer that will allow them to charge-and force consumers to pay - higher prices for shipping goods. The strike dangerously disrupted road transport, closed factories and mines, threw at least 100,000 people out of work, and created scarcities of food, gasoline and othe critical supplies throughout the East and Midwest. Though truck traffic began to pick up slowly at week's end, bands of angry militants, dissatisfied with the agreement continued their harassment...
...cost-controlled movies it celebrates. But Warner Brothers' Fifty Years of Film and Fifty Years of Film Music (which can be purchased separately for $12.98) is one of the pop cultural bargains of the year. No history of movies, however well written or lavishly illustrated, can so effortlessly transport one back to the matinees of yesterday as this anniversary collection of samplings from the studio's sound tracks...
Shootings, beatings and other violence flared along major highways last week as independent truck owners sought to tie up the nation's road transport to protest the rising price and scarcity of diesel fuel. Rejecting an Administration offer aimed at satisfying their complaints, the loosely organized independents called a nationwide strike that has disrupted shipments of steel and other materials and threatens some cities with food shortages...
...SECOND MONTH I was in Vietnam I took a transport plane from Bien Hoa up to Cam Ranh Bay to conduct some business for my company. I eventually had to go to Nha Trang and Cam Ranh was the staging point for traffic flying north...