Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the middle-middle-class Fisher family, bickering affectionately in a comfortable old house in North Philadelphia, comes the Show-Off, one Aubrey Piper, a $32.50-a-week clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad freight office. A back-slapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the implacable euphoria of a lobotomy patient, Aubrey woos and wins the Fishers' younger daughter Amy over the vociferous outrage of the rest of the family. Aubrey does everything wrong-lying with grandiloquent transparency, big-spending his way into debt-and as a husband seems to justify every dire prediction of the fuming...
...motor vehicle. Last week trucks and buses rattled over its freshly concreted streets, stony-faced Indian women raced about on sleek Honda motorbikes, and stores were stocked with everything from American canned tomatoes to cold German beer. On down the road at Tarapoto, the local airport now handles more freight than any other in Peru except Lima. Along with Ford and Chevrolet agencies, Tarapoto has also sprouted no-parking signs and one-way streets...
...sold their Manhattan apartment, took to commuting from his I l l-acre Long Island estate. Meanwhile, his plunges into Latin American airlines had come a cropper. He lost one airline when the Mexican government nationalized it. Even worse was his flyer with Aerovias Panama, a scheduled passenger and freight airline that went bankrupt two years ago, leaving him sole guarantor for bills totaling $499,765.43 owed to a Miami airplane-leasing company...
Depending on the outcome of any legal action, the new railroad is prepared to begin merged operations almost immediately. The first and biggest step will be to inaugurate straight-through freight service from Chicago to the West Coast, with savings in time and money for both the railroad and its shippers. After that will come capital outlays for an electronic freight yard in Minneapolis and expanded freight facilities in Spokane and Seattle. As projected, the management lineup-which could stand some streamlining-would have Great Northern President John M. Budd as chairman and chief executive of the new company, Burlington...
...special allowing a passenger to fly anywhere in the system from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon. With a similar scheme, Mohawk increased its Saturday traffic by 46% during the first half of the year. Mohawk is also turning a profit by selling seats on its middle-of-the-night freight and mail flights. A trip from Boston to Detroit costs only $27.15, or 50 less than bus fare...