Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parks seem to thrive. If he is a businessman, the cost of inefficiency may be high. A 65-m.p.h. train can move steel slabs from the furnaces of Lackawanna, N.Y., and deliver them still hot at an Indiana rolling mill, but mix-ups and wrongly thrown switches sometimes cause freight cars to get lost for as much as seven weeks. High-speed, $15 million ocean ships lie idle for days in port while they are loaded by means of archaic slings. No less an authority than Najeeb Halaby, former head of the Federal Aviation Agency, insists that the U.S. really...
...than both competitors combined. Despite the 43-day midsummer strike, they feel confident enough of the future to have ordered $3.5 billion of new jets for delivery by 1969 and more than 100 supersonic craft for the years beyond that. One reason is their recent hefty gains in air freight, now increasing one-third faster than passenger travel and promising to pass it as a source of income by 1975. Whether the airlines will have enough terminal facilities for all that business is another matter. Travelers already grumble at ticketing and baggage delays, and tomorrow's jumbo jets will...
...central point of the court hearing, however, was what is to become of the Erie-Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine and the Delaware & Hudson. All of the Eastern railroads are more interested in maintaining freight revenues than in picking up passengers; the ICC, in approving the Pennsylvania and Central's request to merge, has ordered that the bigger line continue current freight interchanges with the smaller railroads in order to guarantee their revenues. The three small roads are destined to eventually end up in a second merger that will link them with the Norfolk & Western...
...limit. Orders for machine tools are backlogged up to 16 months. New England electronics manufacturers report delays of many weeks or months in deliveries of semiconductors, integrated circuits, capacitors and film resistors. Besides the scarcity of men and materials, manufacturers of all kinds complain of shortages of freight cars and ships to move goods...
...with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works as an errand boy in a freight company, lives in a furnished garret in Venice, Calif., and is so madly in love with classical music that he seldom remembers how much he longs to fall in love with a girl...