Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was no pacifying the angry dockers. Amid rank-and-file union members dancing and cheering "We've won! We've won!," union delegates met in London's Transport House to vote to shut down Britain's 40 ports indefinitely. The dockers also rejected recommendations for government job guarantees and substantial increases in retirement pay. It was an indication of the deep, visceral uneasiness of Britain's dockers. Though they are among the country's best-paid workers, they are being mercilessly squeezed by progress: modernization has wiped out 18,000 jobs...
...ultimate award not only set the stage for a new space venture but also revealed President Nixon's commitment to revitalize the aerospace industry. If Nixon is reelected, he is likely to press hard to revive another project -the supersonic transport, or SST, which was shot down by Congress in March...
...standing in knots at the Garden loading docks. The union crews are placing the chairs on the Garden floor, and the small mechanized transport trucks, preceded by a brusque "Watch it fellas," are shipping chairs into the main arena. The arrangement of our hiring dictates that each person knows at least two others who are also working, and we're neatly divided into threes and fours...
...Chiangmai Airport is a terminal and warehouse for the CIA's transport contractor, Air America. A short take off and landing plane is usually in sight there...
With little fanfare, Freeman recently announced that Tenneco and two other Houston firms (Texas Eastern and Brown & Root) are carrying on negotiations with the Soviet Union for rights to the vast natural-gas fields of central Siberia. The cartel is bargaining for a 25-year deal to transport, in liquid form, some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas daily -about three times as much as all of New England now uses every 24 hours. U.S. demand for imported natural gas is expected to skyrocket in the near future, since projected needs far outstrip the available supply at home. Final...