Word: freight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other cities. Always popular along the coasts, seafood is now gaining favor inland as well. Jimmy Lynch's 8th Street Seafood Bar & Grill in Des Moines serves 60 to 70 dinners most evenings, three-quarters of which are seafood, a count that doubles on weekends. Lynch receives three air freight shipments of fish a week, totaling 400 to 500 lbs., including such bizarre specimens as monkfish and shark...
...Government bought itself a lot of headaches during the 1970s when it created Conrail, the freight rail system in the East, and Amtrak, the national passenger railroad. At the time, the entire rail business was chugging toward the scrap pile. More than a decade of refurbishing and streamlining, however, has given railroading a shiny new look. Amtrak and Conrail, stoked by $18 billion in subsidies, have rebuilt their equipment and images...
...when she announced that the winner of a lengthy bidding battle to buy 85% of Conrail is Norfolk Southern railroad of Norfolk, Va. (The remaining 15% is owned by Conrail employees.) The $1.2 billion purchase would unite two of the three dominant eastern railroads and forge the largest U.S. freight line, with 34,000 miles of track. The third big railroad, CSX, which runs the Chessie and Seaboard lines, complained that the merger would create a giant that would flatten rivals like pennies on a rail. Some companies who ship by train agreed, contending that fewer railroads would mean higher...
Sometimes it is hard to tell where the freight-train-hopping, the shouting until down, the whoople-making and hopping end and the holiness begins, Immersion and transcendence become the same thing. The senses of both are blended in McDarrah's photographs, whose refreshing candor suggests living for the moment, and whose hary quality lends, sadly, a touch of nostalgia...
...billion in 1981. Cargill, one of the world's largest grain traders, has shown in recent weeks how topsy-turvy world agricultural trade has become. The company briefly considered buying Argentine wheat at $113 a ton and selling it to U.S. flour mills. Even with about $19- per-ton freight charges and $8-a-ton duty, the Argentine product would have been cheaper than U.S. wheat, which was selling for $150 a ton. After an outburst of protest in the farm belt, Cargill canceled the deal...