Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...railroads suffer, too, from memories of the bad and fat old days when many of them arrogantly set their rates according to "what the traffic would bear"-a practice that not only opened the way for trucks to slip in and skim off the cream of the freight, but that also inspired the steady expansion of federal regulation of railroads. Nowadays, a railroad cannot raise or lower its fares, expand or contract its lines, merge or diversify its business without express approval of the slow-rolling Interstate Commerce Commission. Overworked and understaffed, the ICC itself harbors no illusions about...
...Electra was 20 minutes northwest of Miami one sunbright morning last week, the dark, bushy-browed little man in the front seat seemed to be brooding silently on the dangers of flight. Then he came to life. He beckoned to Stewardess Joan ("Casey") Jones and sent her for more cream for his coffee. When Casey returned, the passenger was gone. Across the aisle, another passenger pointed to the cockpit door. Casey rattled the handle, kicked the door lightly, could not budge it. She put the waxed cup on the floor and said: "When he comes out, tell him here...
...helicopters hovered overhead. From tortuous mountain roads, where spills are bloodiest, TV cameras vividly pictured the struggles of storm-lashed competitors. A bottled-gas firm hired a dozen Paris revue stars, staged free shows in a portable theater at each stopover. Monstrous advertising floats included a 65-ft. hair-cream tube and a 17-ft. housefly whose electronic agonies boosted its sponsor's insecticide...
...crammed satellites. Heftiest part of the load (175 lbs.) was Transit IVA, latest of the Navy's navigation satellites, which looked like a bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller drum named Injun, built at Dr. James Van Allen's laboratory at the State University of Iowa. Boosted aloft by a Thor-Able-Star rocket, all three satellites soared...
...Angeles' International Airport resembles a surrealist skid row, composed of a group of crumbling temporary buildings painted in sick and faded shades of pink and green. Gum wrappers and blobs of melting ice cream litter the floors; jammed in the corridors are scales, fortunetelling machines, knickknack shops, gum dispensers, rusty refuse baskets, and hundreds of blinking neon lights. To get to and from their planes, passengers must walk nearly a quarter of a mile. This week Los Angeles' embarrassment over this disgrace came to an end as Vice President Lyndon Johnson dedicated the city...