Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the music stops, the sentries radio for help. First a yellow illumination shell goes up from mortars, followed by diamond-white flares from planes overhead. Then come the "freight trains"-the wheeoosh of friendly artillery shells rushing overhead toward a suspect marsh near by. Who is killed? Who knows? More often than not, the flares have dispersed the Viet Cong long before the first angry cannon is fired...
...same rule holds for public utilities, railroads, or airlines that operate under Government authority and are not guilty of negligence. No one can sue a railroad simply because he is being driven to distraction by the passage of 100-car freight trains. His property must actually be "taken"-a rule that the Supreme Court applied to aircraft in the 1946 case (U.S. v. Causby) of a chicken farmer who was driven off his land by military planes flying as low as 67 ft. above his house near Greensboro, N.C. The court upheld Causby because the physical invasion of his "super...
...stunned the railroad industry, Wall Street and even Washington. Tuohy's C. & O. and the Norfolk & Western Railway announced that they planned not only to merge with each other but to take in five smaller eastern railroads as satellites. The consolidation would produce the greatest passenger and freight colossus in U.S. history...
...dusted off strike signs, prepared rosters of pickets, set aside emergency relief funds; in case there was an unexpectedly long walkout, the parent union could dip into a $20 million surplus. Steelmen halted deliveries of coal, limestone and iron ore as of this week, began clearing their yards of freight cars to avoid paying demurrage charges, sent orders out to start cooling off the giant open-hearth furnaces...
With a motley of piston-powered planes, from puddle-hopping Cessnas to long-range DC-6s, and a single French Caravelle jet, Air Viet Nam last year boosted its freight tonnage 50% and its passenger loads 30% (to 305,000) on flights throughout the country and to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore. Lately the company has expanded its modest fleet to 23 planes by chartering DC-3s from Taipei's China Air Lines and other planes from Air France (which has a 20.5% stake in Air Viet...