Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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grain-price increases that would raise the cost of the region's dairy goods and disruption of transport patterns that could bankrupt a number of businesses...
...Just wait until you see us fly," said Russian Test Pilot Mikhail Koslov. "Then you'll see something." Koslov's pride in his airplane seemed justified. Nearly everyone who attended the Paris Air Show agreed that the Russian supersonic transport, TU-144, was a more impressive-looking craft than its smaller but graceful rival, the Anglo-French Concorde. The final day of the show last week was mostly devoted to flying exhibitions. The Concorde was the first of the SSTs to perform under the canopy of gray clouds that loomed over Le Bourget Airport. As 350,000 spectators...
...growing shortage of gasoline points to one field that has been sorely neglected in Canada and the U.S.: public transport. When fuel supplies dwindle, the logical thing is to bring back good train service...
...while allowing corporate profits and interest rates to rise unchecked, the AFL-CIO's executive council said last week that it is no longer "reasonable to expect the trade union movement to counsel moderation of wage increases." Just how immoderate the big unions-which include the electrical workers, transport workers, machinists and auto workers-will be when their turns come up in later months remains to be seen, but for the moment it looks like a long, hot summer at the bargaining table...
Before Thomson can fly such mixed loads on his new route, he needs approval from other members of the International Air Transport Association-the very airlines that his ads twit-and from interested governments. Meanwhile, he is trying to pull in passengers for Caledonian's daily New York-London and five-day-a-week New York-Los Angeles flights by touting Caledonian's service (baggage handlers, the ads claim, take extra care with luggage, and stewardesses will sharpen pencils for the businessman doing work aloft) and Scottish image. Airplanes are named after Scottish counties and haggis is served...