Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed construction of several new lines, triple-tracking, and staggered working hours for New Yorkers. As for auto traffic, he suggested expansion of cross-town express routes, priority lanes for busses and trucks, more municipal parking facilities, and relocation of the city's cargo docks so that freight-laden trucks would no longer burden Manhattan streets...
...market is equally strong in the big-truck field-dominated by Harvester, White Truck and Mack-in which volume is lower but individual price tags vastly higher. Most orders come from interstate freight lines and are for huge tractor-trailers. Railroad piggybacking has not harmed this market as truck makers feared it would. Railroads still need trucks to haul trailers off freight cars and on to destinations; besides, trucks are still the most economical carriers for runs under 500 miles...
...happy to submit to Court's decision, Coop attorney Philip Cromn '53 said yesterday. The Coop is preparted to reduce the annex's floor area, he explanned, by leaving out a shipment receiving room. "We would use a freight elevator next to our loading dock instead, and I don't think it would hurt our efficiency," he said...
...from 50 million packs in 1960 to 210 million packs last year, while Italian statistics show that only 3,000,000 packs of cigarettes were imported legally in 1964. Italian border police nabbed another 70 million packs of smokes being toted over the border on everything from helicopters and freight cars to trained St. Bernards. One particularly imaginative operator pumped his contraband across a wide Alpine lake in a crude, homemade submarine. The most reliable technique for safe smuggling is still the local spallone (from the Italian spalla, or shoulder). He is a sure-footed mountain man who trudges through...
...Larry Rouillard, Episcopal chaplain at California's Claremont Colleges, are primarily a means of nurturing those who are already committed, not of reaching out to students. Most ministers agree with Yale's Protestant chaplain, Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, that "liturgy doesn't carry the freight it used to," and they freely experiment with different worship forms. At M.I.T., chapel services have included everything from jazz Masses to a dance by a Radcliffe girl in leotards. Episcopal Father Malcolm Boyd, a "chaplain-at-large" to U.S. college students, often starts a prayer service with a reading from Edward...