Word: freight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crash Program. In Albany, N.Y., two unemployed laborers were indicted for attempting to derail a freight train so that they could get some work clearing the tracks...
...train lurched to a stop, stood there for nearly an hour because its engine had broken down. Next morning the commuter, along with 15,000 others on 24 New Haven trains, was delayed some 40 minutes in returning to his Manhattan job. Fires had broken out in a freight engine in New Rochelle, N.Y., and on tracks at Manhattan's 125th Street station. Going home that night the commuter glanced out the window, discovered that ties on the trestle his train was just crossing at Port Chester, N.Y. were on fire ("Gee," said a conductor, "Look at the fire...
Justifying the purchasing agents' optimism, the economy touched new high ground. Freight carloadings jumped nearly 30% over the same week last year, running ahead of 1957 for the first time this year. The dollar volume of new construction rose in May to $4.6 billion, an alltime record for the month...
...Joyous Entrance. To the tidy-minded who demand tables of organization and clearly drawn lines of authority, cooperative unity sounded suspiciously like a fancy phrase for doing nothing. But since 1953, European railways have pooled freight cars as U.S. railroads do, now have some 200,000 cars marked EUROP roaming one another's tracks. Another joint project soon to be established is Eurocontrol-an integrated system of air-navigational control...
MATS' passenger traffic nearly doubled, to 786,841 last year from 440,359 in 1954, and its freight tonnage increased to 249,881 tons last year from 75,173 tons in 1954. On its growing passenger runs, MATS uses 480 Air Force enlisted women as stewardesses, boasts that it flies its military passengers between New York and London at a cost of only $100 while commercial economy-class rates are $257. MATS figures only actual costs of oil, gasoline, etc., does not include the cost of planes and operation...