Word: transported
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Which was also threatened with a strike last week-in this case by the Transport Workers Union. The President headed it off by naming another emergency board to recommend a settlement...
...them, clattered off to direct a joint Mafia-Allied operation, which pincered German and Italian troops in western Sicily. The Allies were so grateful that they generally selected Mafia members to be mayors of occupied towns, even gifted Vizzini with two large trucks. The Mafia used them to transport food in the biggest black-market operation in the South. Withal, the Allies breathed new life and spirit into the 900-year-old Mafia, the world's oldest and most infamous gang of hoodlums...
...Transport Workers Union, representing mechanics and other ground service workers at American had called a strike for 12:01 a.m. last Thursday. By creating the panel, Johnson made it illegal for the union to strike until a 60-day cooling-off period expires...
Wilson's most serious opposition seemed certain to come from the Labor Party's traditional power base, the trade unions. Frank Cousins, the chief of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,500,000 members), who only three weeks ago resigned from the Cabinet in protest against any official restraint on wages, vowed that he would support workers who were due for raises under previously agreed contracts. Other unions pledged to push for higher wages-freeze or no freeze...
...first efficient airmail carrier; it helped him to win the profitable San Francisco-Chicago route. Boeing's Monomail 200 in 1930 was the first plane with retractable landing gear; his 1933 ten-passenger Boeing 247 was the U.S.'s first twin-engined commercial transport plane, and the Boeing Stratoliner in 1938 was the first transport with a pressurized cabin...