Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
...they were resurrected from a railroad museum, rumors of past mismanagement, inadequate service--reality quickly catches up to growing myth as the New Haven continues on the downward track to oblivion. Today the railroad has seventy per cent fewer passengers than in 1922, less than half the freight revenue of 1943, one quarter the number of employees of forty years ago. Nothing, including reorganization under trusteeship after the New Haven filed for bankruptcy in 1961, seems to have offered any hope...
...maintained under private management, they reported that the source of the New Haven's trouble was its passenger deficit. Every railroad in the country loses money on its passenger operation, but the cause of the New Haven's special problem is its extremely high ratio of passenger service to freight service; one of the smaller roads in the country, it ranks fourth in passenger carrying and second in average commuter haul. Its passenger deficit during the last decade was over $133 million...
...other considerable advantages. Planes would never run out of landing room, as they often do at conventional airports; they could simply continue to circle until they slowed sufficiently to use a banked turn-off ramp that would lead them to a centrally located terminal, conveniently spotted for passengers or freight. A circular runway would also be able to handle more traffic than straight runways. With a diameter of 10,500 ft.-about the length of most jet runways-it would have a circumference of more than 32,000 ft., allowing the simultaneous takeoff or landing of several planes spaced...
...Southern Railway, who started out as a kerosene lamplighter at 14, held every job from telegrapher to chief dispatcher until he became president of the 1,647-mile road in 1941, thereafter earning a reputation as one of the more successful leaders of a generally depressed industry by increasing freight and diversifying into moneymaking sidelines; of pneumonia; in Kansas City...