Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro's Cuba includes ten airfields and at least two captured DC-3s (as well as some light planes). From secret bases, probably in Central America and Florida, planes ferry in arms. Castro now has some heavy machine guns, bazookas. 20-mm. and 75-mm. recoilless rifles. He has a network of two dozen radio transmitters...
...Zealand's engineers made a close study of the world's only other big geothermal power plant, at Larderello in central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud...
...Cleveland meeting was prompted by the proposed merger of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads, which are going ahead with their studies, already have in hand a report on the operational aspects of a merger. It was Delaware & Hudson President William White and fellow railroaders who called executives of the seven roads together at Cleveland to discuss what steps to take if the Central-Pennsy merger goes through. The most obvious: meet merger with merger...
White denied that a specific merger proposal was considered at the meeting, but other railroad men admitted that such a move would be "logical." Said John Barriger, president of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, who drew up the operational report for the Central and Pennsy: "It would be perfectly natural and constructive for other railroads to integrate into a second system. Then you would have two equally balanced systems in the east...
...equally logical; all have something to offer each other, and two (the B & O and the Lackawanna) own sizable chunks of other lines in the proposed merger (the Reading and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis). A merger of the seven roads would be bigger than either the Central or the Pennsy, the nation's largest road, and nearly as big as the proposed merger of the two. The seven roads together would have 19,050 miles of main track in ten states (including many duplicated facilities), compared with 12,800 miles owned by the Central and Pennsy...