Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which during the 1960s made unusually low bids to gain Navy-destroyer contracts and then saw costs soar. In 1969 the yard suffered a loss of $3.8 million. Ogden has since gathered the shipyard, its prosperous shipping business, which operates 20 vessels, and a stevedoring firm into a single transportation division, and last year the yard showed a small profit. Now Avondale expects to cash in big by helping to relieve the nation's growing fuel shortage. It is increasing production of liquefied-natural-gas tankers that sell for $100 million each to transport gas from Algeria, Indonesia...
After months of excited talk about sensational fare cuts on flights across the North Atlantic this summer, international airlines finally gave passengers the real news last week: starting April 15, rates will, in fact, go up. The 109 lines that are members of the International Air Transport Association, the industry's rate-fixing cartel, actually decided to continue fares at present levels through the rest of 1973-with certain adjustments to reflect recent rejiggering of currency-exchange ratios. For Americans paying for their tickets in devalued dollars, prices will thus rise an average 6%, boosting the round-trip cost...
...face carvings are ripped away with carbide-toothed power saws; cruder thieves use hammers, wedges or fire to split the irreplaceable sculptures into fragments for easy transport. In March 1971, Archaeologist Ian Graham, a research fellow in Middle American archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, entered La Naya, a Mayan site in Guatemala; looters opened fire, killing his guide Pedro Sierra. In Costa Rica, says Dr. Dwight Heath of Brown University, who spent a Fulbright year there in 1968-69, "One percent of the labor force was involved in illicit traffic in antiquities-which means there are more bootleggers...
...them to plan operations so that they could cut costs by flying fully loaded planes. But weeks of effort by U.S. and European government negotiators to break the deadlock over just how little to charge for the new service have proved futile. Last week representatives of the International Air Transport Association, the scheduled airlines' rate-fixing cartel, began meeting again to make another try at reaching an accord...
...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...