Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic accidents after a storm with 40-m.p.h. winds dropped 8 in. of snow. Disaster was narrowly averted in Harrington Park, N.J., where a foot of snow stalled a bus at a railroad crossing. Minutes after Driver Peter Woelfel coolly ordered his 16 passengers out, a 53-car freight train tore through the crossing, smashing the bus in two. Forty-foot waves and winds of up to 90 m.p.h. along the Atlantic Coast raised fears of another oil-rig disaster. Operators of the Zapata Saratoga rig, anchored 110 miles off Nantucket Island, asked the Coast Guard to evacuate...
...valley snapping off 100-ft ponderosa pines, shattering a utility building and virtually burying the three-story lodge. Then, silence and a deep gash in the mountainside. By nightfall, nearly 100 rescue workers, assisted by dogs, were searching for survivors. Said one rescuer: "It looked like a couple of freight trains had run through that building." Six victims, some buried as deep as 25 ft., were found. Two others were pulled alive from their entombment. At week's end two people were still missing, and more than a foot of new snow had covered the valley...
Like the iodine content of kelp, air freight is something most Americans have never pondered. But Frederick W. Smith, 37, thought about it as far back as his undergraduate days at Yale in the mid-1960s. In a paper for an economics course, Smith proposed the idea of an airline that would carry small packages overnight from city to city. The airline would have its own aircraft and truck fleet, operate independently of the commercial schedules and routes and deliver its cargo anywhere in the U.S. between dusk and dawn...
...workers' inflation adjustment will be used to pay for health and welfare benefits; at present the trucking companies bear the entire cost. The union is also reported to have agreed in some cases to drop an expensive work rule that required longdistance truck drivers to bring freight to terminals for separate delivery by city drivers...
Doris Etelson, 51, the first woman vice president of Howard Johnson Co., the restaurant chain, has been married for 32 years and commuting for five. When she was offered the job in Boston, her husband Robert, 54, who owns an air-freight trucking company in Newark, responded with enthusiasm. "She supported me for years," he says, "and now she is entitled to whatever success she can get." One person who opposed the commuting was her boss, Howard B. Johnson. Says Doris: "He was concerned that it would either jeopardize my marriage or disrupt my business efficiency. He was wrong...