Word: freights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selling ways of the '50s, when the focus was squarely on the product, often to the exclusion of humor, mood or elegance. The clients also insist on more research. Says Jerry Della Femina, head of Delia Femina Travisano & Partners, who is currently working up ads for Emery Air Freight, a forwarder: "Everything is tested, usually in small cities instead of big markets to hold down marketing expenditures...
Early last Thursday morning, freight train B-6 from Enola, Pa., rumbled through a steady drizzle into position at the big Potomac switching yard south of Washington. "Just another working day," said Conductor Carroll Dikeman as he headed home. Well, not quite. Train B-6-along with nearly half of the other trains and 17,000 miles of track in 16 Northeastern and Midwestern states-had just become the property of the Consolidated Rail Corp., a Government-sponsored private company. ConRail's birth marks the largest corporate reorganization ever...
...million in federal grants and unrepaid loans have not restored to health. ConRail also now owns the Reading, Erie Lackawanna, Central of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley and Lehigh & Hudson River lines. Altogether, the six lines lost almost $2 million a day last year. But they carried too much freight (20% of the nation's rail total) and too many passengers (428,000 a day) to be allowed...
Last week Provos from the South Armagh Battalion hijacked and blew up a freight train from Dublin to Belfast just after it crossed the border into Ulster. No one was killed, but the explosion caused $400,000 worth of damage. A major catastrophe was barely averted when a southbound passenger train screeched to a halt just before colliding with the destroyed freight cars. Moreover, in what may mean even more intense sectarian violence in the future, County Armagh is emerging as the center of breakaway I.R.A. factions. These extremist groups reject the willingness of some Provo leaders to discuss with...
...widowed mother in Yakima, Wash., near the mountains where he would later build his beloved wilderness retreat. A lifelong conservationist, naturalist and enthusiastic hiker-climber, he began challenging mountains as a boy in order to rebuild legs ravaged by polio. After graduating from Whitman College, he hitched a freight to New York City, arriving with 60 in his pocket, then worked his way through Columbia Law School-once writing a text for a law correspondence course in a subject he had yet to take himself...