Word: steamship
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...discrimination against women in business and industry account for about 7,500 of the 44,000 complaints filed so far with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Restrictions as to hours were swept away, airline stewardesses won the right to work after age 32, and women got jobs as jockeys, steamship yeomen and telephone switchmen, which were formerly denied them. Soon we may expect legions of female firemen, airline pilots, sanitation men and front-line soldiers (although Anthropologist Margaret Mead thinks that they would be too fierce...
Three types of barge-carrying ships are being developed. The Acadia Forest, the first of 13 LASH (for "lighter aboard ship") vessels now being built at a cost of about $21.5 million each, is due to be put into operation by Central Gulf Steamship Corp. next month. The vessel will be able to carry 39,000 tons of cargo aboard 73 barges. Under plans devised by Jerome Goldman, a New Orleans marine architect, the barges will be hoisted out of the water by a giant shipboard crane and stored vertically in 14 bays on the LASH...
...Westlake, Calif., a new community developed by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. 38 miles northwest of Los Angeles, home prices stretch from $28,000 to $75,000, and fewer than 20% of the people who work in Westlake's industrial park, mostly at skilled or white-collar jobs, live in town. Columbia, Md., a new town developed by the Rouse Co. midway between Bal timore and Washington, has succeeded in attracting blacks, who constitute 15% of the city's current population of 4,000; but its architecture tends to be pedestrian, and most residents still work elsewhere. Reston...
...Railroad, bus and steamship rates probably will be reduced by varying amounts. U.S. passenger railroads, which already offer 15% reductions to foreigners, plan to increase that to 25% on April 29. The nation's intercity bus companies expect to introduce a 10% discount on long-distance charter-coach rates for foreign groups. As for steamship fares, reductions are due to be considered this month by 15 lines...
...Francisco, and Seattle's American Mail Lines-would form a combine with an estimated $156 million in annual revenues, $261 million assets and 51 ships (plus eleven more on order) plying mostly the transpacific and Far East trade routes. The new firm, probably to be named American Steamship Lines, would automatically take its place among the world's top steamship companies...