Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirge for riverboating turns out to be greatly exaggerated. Today the 29,000 miles of rivers, canals and intracoastal passages that constitute the U.S. Inland Waterways System are churning as never before. While railroads and airlines make more noise fighting one another, the inland waterways' share of U.S. freight traffic has climbed from 3% to almost 10% in the last 15 years. This past year, for the first time in U.S. history, river barges carried more Midwestern grain to export ports than the railroads...
...gallon fuel tax on users of the waterways, which have hitherto been toll free. The rivermen are even more upset over a threat from the nation's railroads, which whenever they run parallel to barge traffic are required by federal law to charge 6% more for freight than the barges. Arguing that federal maintenance of the waterways amounts to a subsidy to barge operators, the railroads have asked ICC permission to match barge prices on bulk shipment...
...brother's World War I cavalry saber. "I took his sword and humbled it," she muses, "scraped muck from mouldings, rust from behind benches, dug holes for my plants. It was too awkward for peeling potatoes." Her rebellion comes when she tries to thrust herself into the freight cars full of Jews bound for Auschwitz-to call them to the attention of fellow townsfolk, who have chosen to ignore what is going on. Böll's point: in an insane world, sanity is madness. Duly confined to an asylum, Faehmel's mother at last recognizes...
...Washington last week, a seven-man presidential task force submitted a report on the problem that recommends the federal spending of at least a million dollars on a survey to find new, faster and cheaper ways of moving people and freight through the megalopolis. Curiously, the report points out, the passenger capacity of existing intercity transportation is greater than the demand, although there is chronic congestion at the airports and along airways...
Serving 20 of the 23 biggest air traffic hubs in the nation, it would account for 33% of the U.S. airline industry's operating revenues, 40% of its freight business and 36% of its total assets. "The only other carrier that would be even close," wrote Wiser, "would be United, which has about a fourth of the business." Wiser's opinion is not binding on the CAB. The board can vote to overrule its examiners (and has on 18 of their last 47 recommendations). But because international routes are involved (Mexico, Bermuda, Puerto Rico), final...