Word: freight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuts to stimulate the nation's economic recovery. Money-losing railroads were obliged to hike hourly wages by 12? last November, pile on 4? more in April, now are slated for a third 7? jump this November. Meanwhile, they fall deeper into the red, though both passenger and freight rates are going...
...construction by giving an extra $1.9 billion to Fannie May (actually more than the Administration had asked for), provided extra unemployment benefits for an average of 13 weeks to those who had exhausted their regular benefits. The Government poured more money into highway construction, eliminated the transportation tax on freight, began fattening pay envelopes in June with the first installment of $1.4 billion in pay raises for military and civilian employees. States and cities helped by raising their expenditures more than 15% for the first eight months this year, to $5.3 billion. Because of increased Government spending, the U.S. budget...
When Railroader Arthur Samuel Genet was brought in as president of limping Greyhound Corp. three years ago, he took a look around and began to deride the company's veteran bus executives. Genet, who had done well as freight vice president of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, growled that the sales staff of the world's biggest intercity bus line had "no thorough experience or training" and was "sitting on its hands." He charged that the advertising and publicity programs had "failed miserably...
...hung on Zen, there's no need to try to pretend that you are not. If you really want to spend some years in a Japanese monastery, there is no earthly reason why you shouldn't. Or if you want to spend your time hopping freight cars and digging Charlie Parker, it's a free country. In the landscape of Spring there is neither better nor worse;/ The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short...
...that profits are also edging up, after plunging 98%, in the first quarter. Faced with the prospect of better business, the big companies are going ahead with capital expansion plans. Continental Transportation Lines expects to spend more than $400,000 on additions to garage and new equipment; Interstate Motor Freight plans to get three smaller shipping companies; Ryder System will spend $1,000,000 on new equipment...