Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diligent search by Japanese soldiers, who had been tipped off by a Tokyo anthropologist, failed to uncover the fossils. Postwar investigations by American scientists and marines were equally unsuccessful, although the searchers traced missing freight cars, ranged from Chinwangtao south to Tingtao, poked into long-sealed "godowns...
Norris' tactics paid off. In his regime, the Southern's freight volume doubled, its net jumped to $22 million. Norris also managed to cut the Southern's debt by $120 million, including $32 million owed to the RFC which he had vowed he would pay off "dollar by dollar," if necessary. Last week, after half a century of railroading, 69-year-old Ernest Norris stepped up to the post of chairman...
...this job, he bossed the road's switch to diesel locomotives, which he calls "the greatest single railroad improvement in modern times." When the switch is completed in March, Southern will have 847 diesels. DeButts now plans to turn his efforts toward modernizing yards and streamlining freight handling. Says he: "Every time a train enters an old-fashioned yard, before it can get out on the line again, the average competing truck has made a couple of hundred miles on the highway...
...news staffs for the Spokesman-Review and the Chronicle, encouraged them to compete with each other. The Republican Review concentrated on regional news; the Chronicle, which was "independent" politically, focused on Spokane. The papers won power and prestige by their crusades against gambling, liquor and prostitution, and for lower freight rates for the Northwest, better parks and other projects which helped build up Spokane and the region. In one fiercely fought local campaign, a crank twice tried to dynamite the papers' plant. The Review also battled plans for Grand Coulee dam, but even former Staffer Dyar now admits that...
...Miles of Track. Importing twice what it exports, the country must write its budget in red. The kingdom's rail transport consists of one steam engine, two diesels, a few ramshackle freight cars, and only 200 miles of track to run them on. Between Tripoli, which is the country's largest city, and Fezzan, its largest province, there are no telephone, telegraph or radio connections. Nor is there much homogeneity between the three provinces. Except for the late years of Italian rule (1935 until World War II), Tripolitania (pop. 800,000), Cyrenaica (pop. 300,000) and Fezzan...