Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assets." Chalk started out well enough. He replaced old streetcars with spiffy new air-conditioned buses, and demanded prompt, courteous service from his drivers. Longstanding union grievances were eased by increasing drivers' wages to the point that they were the fourth best in the country for city transport workers. Within two years, however, Chalk began paying dividends to stockholders, including himself: he and his wife own a third of the stock in the holding company...
...demonstrators-none of them Harvard students-were arrested in the TWA terminal at the airport while protesting construction of the SST (Supersonic transport), which will begin operation in the mid-70's. No permit was granted for the demonstration...
...students staged a "die-in" in front of TWA's ticket desk at Logan International Airport early yesterday evening, while more than 100 other students stood by. The group-which filled the central area of TWA's lobby-was protesting government construction of the SST, a supersonic speed passenger transport which will join airline fleets...
...mass "die-in" According to New England Ecology Center there will be a "mock funeral for victims of genocide in Southeast Asia, racism in America, and biocide from pollution and herbicides in Vietnam." Demonstrators also plan to stage a sit-in at North Temninal to protest the proposed supersonic transport (SST). The sit-in is scheduled to last until...
...major goal for the next ten years for this country must be to restore the cleanliness of the air, the water and that, of course, means moving also on the broader problems of population congestion, transport and the like," the President declared...