Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even under the best of circumstances, the mass migration would be no easy task for the three countries to arrange. Indian transport officials estimate that nearly 100 trains will be required to empty the 50 P.O.W. camps...
...Chilean transport owners have kept their trucks in their garages for almost three weeks now, avowedly striking to topple the socialist coalition of Salvador Allende. The owners, fearful that their precious private property would be expropriated sometime soon, have resorted to clandestine sabotage, adding to the problems caused by the strike itself--shortages of gasoline, food and medical supplies...
...Highway Action Coalition, an ad hoc group of environmental organizations that fought to open up the Highway Trust Fund, is nonetheless delighted. "We got three-quarters of what we wanted," says the coalition's young director John Kramer. "We wanted to change the atmosphere in which urban transport decisions are made-to be sure public transportation alternatives are available to cities. That's happened. We also wanted to change the national transportation spending priorities. That's been accomplished too, at least for urban areas...
...early summer of 1972, before the Soviet purchases and heavy buying by other nations helped push the price received by farmers to more than $2 a bu. Congressmen are miffed that grain companies and ship operators collected needless federal subsidies. Shippers are recovering from a nationwide transportation tie-up that resulted from grain dealers' scrambling for freight cars to transport grain, much of it to the Soviets. Consumers have particularly good reason for anger: the deal contributed to a grain shortage in the U.S., driving up prices for bread, meat, poultry and dairy products...
...change these policies, South Dakota Democratic Senator James Abourezk and Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Les Aspin have introduced a bill that would permit a company to operate in only one of the four phases of the industry: production, refining, pipeline transport or marketing. Democratic Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre of New Hampshire has submitted a bill that would force all U.S. oil companies to give up their retail-marketing divisions by year's end. Florida's attorney general, Robert Shevin, has also filed suit seeking to force the 15 major oil firms to divest themselves of their crude-oil-production...