Word: freights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vampires have been pursuing their normal activities - laying waste the countryside, terrorizing the peasants - but when finally confronted by the forces of good, they appear as pitiful, helpless creatures. That sort of facile switch does little for credibility, less for coherence, and leaves the film's heavy freight of symbols (including a bevy of slaughtered animals and the ever popular humpbacked dwarf) lying about like so much unclaimed baggage...
Phase Outs. Harder hit are farmers, who have to get gas delivered to them; many predict that a shortage will impair their ability to harvest crops this fall. Truckers are also hurting. Chicago's Spector Freight System Inc., for example, expects to spend $1,000,000 more this year because of a 7?-a-gallon jump in the wholesale price of diesel fuel. Before the freeze, prices were rising at the corner gas station as well; in Boston they went up 2? a gallon in the past week. The Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, whose members...
...Hong Kong, an agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency slips into a railroad yard and checks the wear on ball hearings of freight cars coming in from China to try to spot unusual troop movements. Meanwhile, another agent goes to the Hong Kong central market and buys a large order of calf's liver from animals raised in China to run a lab test for radioactive fallout...
...LONG string of danger signals began to blink ever more insistently last week. The message: like a runaway freight train, the economy is hurtling forward at an inflationary speed that could send it off the rails into recession next year...
...scale contemplated by the ICC could become a massive, endless drain on taxpayers. The root problem of the Northeast lines is that their track system was vastly overbuilt around the turn of the century; in an era of trucks and pipelines it no longer carries enough freight to keep all the lines alive. On the other hand, Brinegar's belief that no federal money will be needed is almost surely wishful thinking. "There is no way for a bankrupt railroad to raise money other than through a federal subsidy," says one rail executive. "Even if we streamline our plant...