Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room that he missed his own graduation and they couldn't even figure out what was wrong with him when they finally saw him. Then just a few months later he went to a doctor in private practice who knew instantly that he had been run over by a freight train. You do not hear stories like that from people who were smart enough to get decent medical care in the first place...
...well. Theodore Weigle, executive director of the Chicago Regional Transportation Authority, estimates that the decline in diesel-fuel prices could save his agency as much as $7 million in 1986. But for American railroads, the oil-price drop is a mixed blessing. The good news is that most U.S. freight trains are diesel powered; at Norfolk Southern Corp., in Norfolk, Va., for example, executives expect that saving from the decrease in diesel prices will be substantial. The bad news for Norfolk Southern is that some 35% to 40% of its freight is coal, and as oil prices have fallen...
Traveling around the world, orchestrating his vast air armada, Doole kept his airplanes busy. Under the cover of legitimate freight and charter services, Doole's airlines supplied a 30,000-man secret army in the mountains of Laos for a ten-year war against the Pathet Lao, dropped scores of agents into Red China, and helped stage an unsuccessful revolt in Indonesia. Not surprisingly, all this flying about aroused curiosity. In 1970 a New York Times reporter asked Doole if Air America had any connection with the CIA. "If 'someone out there' is behind all this," Doole airily replied...
Contract's drivers are on the road about 80 hours a week, mostly hauling spare auto parts and other freight for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The new drivers are needed because the company, which already has 1,200 trailers based at eight terminals from Detroit to Beaumont, Texas, is planning to expand to Atlanta and New York City. Anyone in good health is welcome to apply, but farmers will be given preference. "They've got a good work ethic," explains Lacy. "Our people work long hours. This just isn't for everybody...
Henry Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...