Word: freights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost money, and in March 1949 the Pennsylvania declared it bankrupt and said it was on its own. A few months later, the Nassau County Transit Commission charged that the Pennsylvania had systematically milked its subsidiary. It charged that: for the L.I.'s tugs and barges to move freight across New York Harbor, the Pennsy paid the L.I. only 35? a ton, collected as much as $1.10 from shippers; the Pennsy and the N.Y., N.H. & H. used some eleven miles of Long Island tracks, paid only half of what the fee should have been; the Pennsy leased the Long...
Free Drinks & Applause. Like thousands of unskilled youngsters before and since, Arthur criss-crossed the continent getting by on such odd jobs as dishwashing and wrestling bricks from kiln to wheelbarrow to freight car. He was befriended in New York by a prostitute with a storybook heart of gold; by a sentimental Irish cop in Akron; by a priest who gave him his first religious instruction. In 1920, to continue his interrupted education, Godfrey joined the Navy, was baptized a. Roman Catholic by his chaplain at Norfolk, and-briefly-was fired by the ambition to become a priest...
...Commerce Department began steaming out of the riverboat business as fast as it could go. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer welcomed bids for the Government-owned, World War I-spawned Inland Waterways Corp., which operates a fleet of some 260 freight barges and 21 towboats on the Mississippi, Missouri and Warrior Rivers. Though the corporation hauled a record 2,900,000 tons of cargo in fiscal 1949, it lost $1,065,000, has not shown a profit in a decade. Last week, a syndicate of 14 private companies offered to lease the barge lines but made no bid for Inland...
Actually, the Ewing plan would not make much difference to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield subscriber, such as the Bronx freight handler, in terms of dollars. Most directly benefited by it would be millions of Americans who live in areas where no such plan is available, or who do not qualify for membership because they cannot get into a "group membership" plan, or who are not regularly employed, or who simply cannot afford the premiums. For subscribers to the Blue Cross-Blue Shield types of insurance above the income cutoff, the Ewing plan would offer an apparent saving in years...
...succeeding decades, the Japanese began to get the hang of the herringbone climb and the Christiania turn, and skiing became one of Japan's top winter sports. Last week, Japan's skiers staged a big two-day national ski meet. The ski-happy Japanese hauled 50 freight cars full of fresh snow out of chilly northern Niigata and, as shown here, heaped it atop a huge ski jump in balmy Tokyo's Korakuen stadium. The Transportation Ministry and a local newspaper, which sponsored the meet and paid for the snow, lost only...