Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norfolk & Western, normally one of the most profitable, had a 23% earnings decline. The N. & W. managed, however, to set another sort of record. Pulled and pushed by eight diesel engines, a supertrain of 450 coal cars moved over 47 miles of N. & W. track to set a freight-train record for U.S. railroads. Any motorist caught at a grade crossing had to wait ten minutes for the supertrain to pass...
...evoke all the romantic passion contained in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee? In a short Chinese poem, Bernard Bragg, who studied under Marcel Marceau, creates visual haiku with the line "a wave carries the moon away and the tidal water comes with its freight of stars," by forming a crescent with his upraised hand, then slowly lowering it over an undulating outstretched palm. The signing of Joe Velez makes more hilarious sense out of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky than the words ever do when spoken...
...would be detrimental. And it left untouched an ar rangement under which the Penn Central, if the ICC approves, would first lend $25 million to the beleaguered New Haven to keep it going; the Penn Central would ultimately acquire the New Haven and maintain its red-inked passenger and freight services...
...inhibited a distinct and rational progression in both style and content. In the early 1950s, Marca-Relli was concerned with semi-abstract figures of people, then moved on to swelling abstract panoramas of jostling, fluttering and flying scraps of canvas. From that period, 1958's Night Freight, says Marca-Relli, "has a feeling of movement which could have been the rumbling of a quiet freight filled with bodies being taken away in the night...
...nearly everything-and the bigger the number the better. During July's two-day rail strike, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry issued an instant statistic that the city was losing $40 million to $60 million a day, into which total were cranked lost railroad fares and freight revenues, reduced restaurant and hotel receipts, smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway the minute the strike had ended. "What...