Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truck is their horse and they are I the cowboys," says smooth-talking Richard Moyers, a vice president for Transport City. And it is true that they come on in Stetson hats, tooled leather belts and pointy-toed boots trimmed in iguana or wildebeest. But the men who roll into Transport City do not have the lean, weathered look of wranglers. Those pearl-buttoned denim shirts barely cover bellies bulging out from too many orders of mashed potatoes and chocolate cream pie. These cowboys are at home not on the range but in the claustrophobic cabs of 18-wheel trucks...
...Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen and Atkinson's proctor, said he told the student to transport the chemicals to the Science Center at least a week before Friday's evacuation...
...transport is only one of marijuana's ways north. Colombia has 1,300 miles of jagged coastline, from which it is easy enough to load 20 tons or more of grass aboard freighters, trawlers or large (often stolen) yachts. These mother ships, as they are called, are monitored by the U.S. Coast Guard at a series of "choke points" as they work their way north through the Caribbean. But American authorities have little power as long as the drug ships hover outside the twelve-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Using sophisticated electronic equipment, the smugglers on these mother ships...
...Prime Minister James Callaghan's shaky Labor government. Callaghan had set an anti-inflationary guideline of 5% for wage settlements, but the strikers were demanding increases ranging from 20% to 41%. The Prime Minister considered calling a state of emergency, thus empowering the armed forces to transport vital supplies of food and fuel. He rejected that course for fear of provoking the unions into even more drastic measures. Challenged by a Tory backbencher to bring the unions under control, Callaghan could only ask plaintively, "What action can I take...
...abruptly changed the situation by, among other things, extending federal price controls to so-called intrastate gas. That has made it just as profitable for a driller in, say, Oklahoma to sell his gas to a pipeline company that will transport it to Michigan as to a customer that will use it to generate electricity or heat a factory in Tulsa. This in turn has made available an estimated 1 trillion additional cubic feet of the fuel for sale in states such as Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey, where it is needed most. One trillion cubic feet is roughly equal...