Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stork Club, I was set upon and mugged. No one came to my assistance-no one except TIME, which thoughtfully supplied the number to call: CAnal 7-2000 [May 8]. I found there was no CAnal 7, but learned when one dials this number the response is Acme Fast Freight: BArclay...
...freight loader in Edge of the City was both laughing boy and leader, with the universal quality that inspires followers, much like the high school student he played in Blackboard Jungle. His trapped, foolish, ambitious, odds-against-him young husband in A Raisin in the Sun was an agonized study in subhysterical frustration. In Lilies of the Field, his smolderings are banked far down beneath the surface of his easygoing life, but he manages to reveal them in a word here, a gesture there...
This did not seem to matter so much until 1953, when the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to abandon its freight and commuter ferry across the bay as too expensive and too slow. The whole Delmarva Peninsula took fright. So did the Virginia legislature, which appointed a committee to study the problem. Norfolk, which was in the midst of an effort to transform itself into something better than a sleazy shore-leave resort for 70,000 sailors, gave the project enthusiastic support. It took time. But by 1960, the bridge commission, headed by Eastern Shore Businessman Lucius Kellam, had floated...
Machines at New Jersey's Sterling Drug Inc. have just produced their 100 billionth Bayer aspirin tablet for the in satiable U.S. market. All in all, U.S. industry now manufactures 27 million Ibs. of aspirin a year - enough to fill four 100-car freight trains, enough for the 16 billion straight, five-grain aspirin tablets that Americans swallow each year, plus an even greater amount for the children's miniature aspirin and such formulations as Bufferin, APC tablets, Coricidin and Alka-Seltzer...
...dynamite blast at a trestle near Miami sent 27 cars of a 91-car freight tumbling down an embankment into a stream. Three hours later, the railroad's only wreck-clearing derrick car in southern Florida was blown up. Later in the week, four boys found 45 sticks of dynamite wired to the main line tracks near Titusville, dismantled them barely minutes before a 70-car freight highballed by. And at week's end, another dynamiting near New Smyrna Beach derailed 14 cars...