Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD, second biggest in New England (after the New Haven), will spend $11.2 million to revamp its passenger service, has ordered twelve diesels. a fleet of 55 high-speed, self-propelled stainless-steel commuter cars to be built by Philadelphia's Budd Co. Delivery date...
From sun-beaten ports in the Gulf Coast a monstrous, ungainly fleet is putting out to sea on a dramatic mission. It is the "navy" of the offshore oilmen, and never did stranger ships sail on more venturesome voyages. Some of the craft bristle with giant cranes; others grow forests of steel columns as tall as Douglas firs. All of them clank and roar with violent machinery. Alongside conventional ships built for more seemly duty, they look as clumsy as cassowaries splashing in a lake of swans...
...docks in Freeport, Texas one day last week, 238 disabled veterans boarded an odd-looking fleet of 56 boats, ranging from battered shrimpers to slick and polished yachts. The vets were off for a day of fishing. For the blind, there were special lines with tufts of silk placed at regular intervals to show how much line was out; for one-armed fishermen there were special devices to wind the reels. Both the expedition-and the fishing aids-were the productions of Columnist Ralph Alexander ("Andy") Anderson of Scripps-Howard's Houston Press. A little...
With his new fleet he plans to step up schedules on his company's routes, reducing shipping time by as much as 50% on some long hauls. Specially designed by engineers from his own company and G.M., his 500 new tractors were built for two-man driving teams. They have comfortable sleeping units and other features suggested by a Harvard University study on driver fatigue and safety (e.g., shaded windshields, adjustable seats to prevent tiring). Of his 1,400 new trailers, 400 are mechanically refrigerated...
...combine forces with Los Angeles' $18 million West Coast Fast Freight, Inc. Pacific Intermountain, which has just ordered $4,000,000 worth of new equipment, will pay Fast Freight's owners $3,270,000 and 60,000 shares of Pacific Intermountain stock, will then have a combined fleet of 2,642 tractors and trailers serving 25,000 Western and Midwestern towns. Combined business: $40 million annually, second biggest in the U.S., behind Manhattan's $44 million Associated Transport...