Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...erect a federal regulatory hurdle for Heineman, Goodrich in March paid about $2.7 million in stock to buy Motor Freight Corp., a Terre Haute-based trucking company that competes with Northwest on some rail routes. Goodrich then petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission, urging it to rule that Northwest would need ICC approval for a merger...
...night it happened. "It was during the depression. Let me see, it was nineteen and thirty . . . two. I was workin' with Evan Thomas in Crowley, Louisiana. We was all sittin' out in the sun by the railroad tracks one day, and Bunk was ridin' a flatcar on a freight train. He was lookin' for work. When he seen us, he jumped off that train and come over to me with a big grin. He says, 'Hi, George. Need a trumpet player?' We took him on with...
Tougher safety regulations governing U.S. railroads are a major goal of the National Transportation Safety Board, which has noted that derailments in creased by 71% between 1961 and 1968 (TIME, March 7). Last week the case for regulation was strengthened still fur ther when two more freight trains with potentially lethal cargoes jumped the tracks on the same...
...residents of East Germantown, Ind., were evacuated when 61 cars of a 110-car Penn Central train were derailed, spraying the area with chemicals that set fires and sparked explosions. In Texas, 13 cars of a Kansas City South ern freight train carrying inflammable liquefied gas were derailed south of Texarkana. Six families were evacuated when a fire seemed likely. No one was injured in the two derailments. But the rolling fright continues...
...Soviet pressures, had been sent to East Berlin this time only in order to keep the East Germans in line. Still, a lingering fear remained among West Germans and West Berliners that the Communists would use their new charge about illegal armament production in the city to selectively harass freight traffic from West Berlin...