Word: freights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chief, Matsutaro Fujii, faces a daunting challenge in trying to restore the line's prosperity and revive the harmony that was once the hallmark of the "national railway family," or kokutetsu ikka. With trucking taking away most of its freight business and airlines slowly chewing into its passenger traffic, the railroad has been losing money since 1964. Last year its accumulated deficit stood at $2.5 billion; interest on its debt alone totals $2 million a day. Thus the line, which daily carries up to 18 million people, has been severely pinched for funds to improve its services and battle...
...better Hovercraft. Its proponents reply, however, that following British entry into the Common Market, the tunnel has become a straightforward economic proposition. British Transport officials estimate that the tunnel, in its first year of operation, will carry 15 million passengers and at least 5,000,000 tons of freight...
...heavy buying by other nations helped push the price received by farmers to more than $2 a bu. Congressmen are miffed that grain companies and ship operators collected needless federal subsidies. Shippers are recovering from a nationwide transportation tie-up that resulted from grain dealers' scrambling for freight cars to transport grain, much of it to the Soviets. Consumers have particularly good reason for anger: the deal contributed to a grain shortage in the U.S., driving up prices for bread, meat, poultry and dairy products...
...faulty reasoning of The Crimson and Councilperson Graham is most in evident in their opposition to a proposed redevelopment of the industrial and freight areas behind the river between M.I.T. and Cambridge. Again comes the oppositional shibboleth: no, make it housing for the poor -- even though the area is a wasteland and any housing would be isolated, and the people live anomic lives...
Central since 1925. She began battling years ago as the once fine parlor and Pullman car service between New York City and her house near Millerton, N.Y., declined. Last year she doubled her efforts, after passenger service was stopped short of Millerton. When the Penn Central tried to end freight traffic on a 30½-mile stretch north from Millerton to Ghent, she sued...