Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since been put off four times while the ICC and the Eastern railroads tried to work out conditions that would be equitable for all. One problem has been the debt-ridden New Haven railroad. Under the terms of the merger, it will eventually become a part of the Penn Central; until it does. New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island...
...central point of the court hearing, however, was what is to become of the Erie-Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine and the Delaware & Hudson. All of the Eastern railroads are more interested in maintaining freight revenues than in picking up passengers; the ICC, in approving the Pennsylvania and Central's request to merge, has ordered that the bigger line continue current freight interchanges with the smaller railroads in order to guarantee their revenues. The three small roads are destined to eventually end up in a second merger that will link them with the Norfolk & Western...
Even with a highball from the appeals court, the Penn Central will have to maintain its milk-train speed for a while. The protesting railroads announced that they were taking the case to the Supreme Court; they petitioned Justice John Harlan, who as judicial overseer of the U.S. Second Circuit handles such appeals from New York, to grant a stay so that the full court can hear their arguments...
...others: Boston & Maine, Delaware & Hudson, Reading, Central of New Jersey, Western Maryland, Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio, and Norfolk & Western...
...long last, Engineer Richard Foy has it: a computer in his bedroom. In his house outside Los Angeles, he has installed a Teletype-like machine that is wired into a central computer, which Foy must share with up to 350 other users. For five hours each month, at a rental of $160 monthly, he can type problems into the machine and get instant solutions. Besides using it in his work and to help design his own hydrofoil boat, Foy will rent out computer time to his two grade-school children to assist them with homework. For each three minutes...