Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every week, freight trains that are sometimes 80 cars long rumble across the Midwest and into the mouth of a mammoth limestone cave in Kansas City, Kans. Below ground, workers descend upon the boxcars and begin unloading the crated cargo. The tight security suggests an underground nuclear test facility, or maybe a toxic waste storage dump. In fact, the site is actually the U.S. Government's largest warehouse for surplus butter...
...reddish ape from the Indian Ocean but throws it back when the sad, manlike creature disrupts ship's business. The captain insists that the ape had no meaning and his fate no moral significance. The reader should have no trouble getting the author's drift: when the freight must be moved, the strange and rare are always expendable...
...boomed since the military coup of July 1980. CBS' 60 Minutes recently provided ample documentation that top-ranking members of the military are closely associated with the elite group which controls the drug traffic. Minister of Interior Colonel Luis Arce Gomez, for example, is part owner of an air freight company which makes weekly flights to an unknown location in Colombia. In February, his plane was found to be carrying 300 kilos of cocaine, but Arce avoided conviction. Arce's yearly income from cocaine was estimated at half a million...
...interstates are often in much worse shape. In eastern Kentucky, where pockmarked roads suffer a relentless pounding from overloaded coal trucks, drivers bitterly complain that most of their tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full of holes. Says...
Efforts to rebuild the railroads should be buoyed by the deregulation law passed by Congress last year, which directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to give the railroads more freedom to raise their freight rates. Rail executives hope that they can make many branch lines profitable and restore their tracks and roadbeds. Otherwise, they argue, the lines should simply be abandoned...