Word: transporting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general already has ambitious plans for the Transport Ministry. "For the love of me," he says, "I do not know why we can have one of the best air forces in the world-sorry, the best -and one of the worst train services. You see, I am not a humble man. But you just watch this wagon move from...
...whom, he complains, get into "a foul temper" when he is away from them). Letters poured in from both American and British bear lovers, as well as from several bears ("They are just as articulate as Other Persons"). Bull soon discovered that of the 250 Teddy bears lost on transport vehicles in London each year, almost all are claimed; that exactly 50% of British children surveyed and 55% of American ones consider Teddy their favorite toy; and that 45% of a sampling of British children call their critter "Teddy" because, as many of them pointed out, "he is a Teddy...
...Instead of annual increases in spending of 8%-10%, the growth will be held down, McCracken said, and "this difference should be kept firmly in mind." Labor Secretary Shultz said that the businessmen would have to face union demands without Government help, even in the case of utility or transport strikes. "We place our reliance on the free economy," he said, "so that our resolve will be tested." Nixon himself closed the meeting with a speech that asked business to "meet its responsibilities to make America the hope of the whole world." As for inflation, he merely repeated his earlier...
...Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) has chartered buses to transport over 3000 Massachusetts protestors to Washington this weekends. Five buses left last night and over 50 are scheduled to leave continuously tonight until all ticket holders have been accommodated...
...rate charter flights, which last year carried 14% of the passengers who flew the Atlantic. The only way for the scheduled lines to stall the charters is to reduce their own rates. A major impediment is that many of the state-run European carriers, which dominate the International Air Transport Association, have traditionally argued for higher fares. The U.S. lines have long pressed for reduced rates, figuring that lower fares would attract more customers and ultimately increase profits. But the U.S. lines are a minority within the IATA cartel. Another complicating factor is that many airlines are going through financial...