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That was the year...
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CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1946 and 1996.
1946
On 14 February John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert demonstrated ENIAC, the first all-purpose, all-electronic computer. to scientists and industrialists It was claimed it could multiply 360 ten-digit numbers or extract a square root -in a single second," but it used so much electricity it caused the lights in a nearby town to dim each time it was used.The United Nations met for the first time in January and, most important of all, the bikini was introduced in July.
Peace in our time
Matters were coming to boiling point in the UK's haulage industry. Plans for nationalisation outraged CM and the recently formed Road Haulage Association. It pontificated: "The haulier in a small way was his own boss and in most cases proud of the business he was building up. In a nationalized system he would lose his interest and probably have to revert to the status of a driver."
A land fit for heroes
CM worried about the plight of ex-servicemen. It said many were worried about returning to civilian life. "One Municipal engineer remarked that the best thing a returning ex-serviceman can do is to forget that he has been in the Army."
National treasure
In the nationalisation debate CM said that after the nationalisation of the coal industry the government was turning its attention to haulage, "not even with the excuse that transport by road has in any way failed to play its part in the general transport system of the nation".
1996
Yasser Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. The IRA ceasefire ended with a one-ton bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people. The government admitted BSE had probably been transmitted to people. US Mafioso boss John Gotti was found guilty of the murder of Paul Castellano. Germany beat the Czech Republic 2-1 with a "golden goal" to win Euro 96. Gareth Southgate's missed penalty saw England go out in the semis,.
You won't get me I'm part of the union
Union efforts to cut truck drivers' hours were intensifying as Brussels prepared to impose a 48-hour week on most other UK and Continental workers. The TUC. which argued truck drivers should not be excluded from the new limit, was expected to increase pressure on the European Commission to make it include transport workers.
Fiddlers on the route
One in six commercial vehicle drivers could be illegally claiming the dole, a multi-agency check revealed. Operation Allsorts stopped 5,320 drivers. catching 401 claiming benefits while working. Police said that number would double once the drivers were checked in detail.
Too busy making money to save the planet
UK hauliers were too competitive to work together on an EC project designed to cut congestion and vehicle emissions. Stephen Anderson, research fellow at the University of Westminster, said no UK city was participating in the project because of the cut-throat nature of the UK haulage business.