Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...below 1959's $12 million. Castro's economic agents talked big deals, but so far have signed few contracts. A U.S. embassy official looked into reports that U.S. wheeler-dealers were sending embargoed goods to Canada, then transshipping them via the U.S. in sealed freight cars to the Havana railway ferry at West Palm Beach, Fla. He reported back that "not a single provable case has turned...
...ailroad freight carloadings rose slightly over the previous week, though they remain 9.9% below the same week last year...
Just after his 21st birthday Clark Gable joined a touring theatrical company called the Jewell Players, stayed with the group until it collapsed some months later in Butte, Mont. He had 26?. Hopping a freight, he took a gelid ride to the Pacific Northwest, piled logs, sold neckties, became a telephone repairman. One of the last phones he fixed was at the theater of the Red Lantern Players, where Josephine Dillon, then in her late thirties,, was the resident stage director. She taught him diction, projection and carriage, and married him when...
...coffee and warm highball, by panicky rumor and wild hope. Severely tested along with everyone else is the audience, which has to sit through long scenes already marked for destruction. As a production is laboriously dragged from town to town (before Camelot reaches New York, its railway fares and freight charges alone will reach $35,000), a playwright sometimes tosses everything but his last will and testament into the first draft to see what will go. A merchandising mentality ("Give them what they want") can sacrifice a song, a scene or a whole play to the whim of a weary...
...book's best piece is about railroading - how to set a freight car's brake and then, perilously, slip blocks of wood under the wheels; the arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father...