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Word: freighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking Up. At the moment, Catoosa (pop. 638) has neither a water nor a sewage system. Most of its streets are unpaved. Many of its stores are abandoned. No passenger trains stop at the forlorn depot; no freight has been moved out since a local coal mine shut down a year or so ago. Catoosa is not even on the Arkansas, which passes 15 miles away at Tulsa. But the river at Tulsa is so impossible that engineers threw up their hands, decided to branch off the Arkansas and dredge their channel up the Verdigris River, a tributary, to Catoosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rivers: Competition for the Catfish | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...final camp, Chan used his last article of wealth, a Parker pen set, to bribe his way into the prison hospital. On a stormy night he slipped out a window, climbed the fence, and raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Refugee from the Tiger Squad | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...North Western strike was likely to prove a turning point. Whatever settlement results from it will go far towards setting a pattern not only for railroad telegraphers but also for all other technologically obsolete railroad employees-including 45,000 "firemen" who ride diesel locomotives on the nation's freight trains and in switching yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: STOP | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...company, with assets of $4.2 billion. The 9,867-mile PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD and the 10,264-mile NEW YORK CENTRAL have a compelling plea: each is losing money. But combined, they figure to cut 7,800 jobs and save $75 million a year. The ICC, which moves slower than freight, will take about two years to decide on that application. But two other Eastern mergers are likely to get the ICC's green light within the next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: A MERGER SCOREBOARD | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...railroads today would far rather haul freight than people-and they show it. But things are different in the rest of the world. Though the glamorous Orient Express, beloved by mystery writers, has been curtailed because of international red tape and visa requirements, the luxury train still belongs to the European way of life. Latest and best is West Germany's sleek new Rheingold Express, which clicks along at 100 m.p.h. between Basel and Hook of Holland. Its six cars offer the latest in air-conditioned high living-roomy six-seat compartments, contoured reclining chairs, a glass-walled observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Luxury Abroad | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

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