Word: freights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sales increases. Both the domestic and foreign companies are also struggling with a worldwide shortage of parts. Most bike hand brakes and gears are produced overseas, and until the manufacturers catch up with back orders there will be a brake on further expansion. Schwinn, for example, has to air-freight brake parts from Switzerland to keep its production schedule from being thrown out of gear...
More Aid. The Penn Central, however, has been under pressure from Congress to divest itself of its nontrans-portation assets. In fact, divestiture was a condition that the Government attached to a promise to guarantee $125 million in loans last winter. Now it seems that unless higher freight rates and more stringent work rules are approved this summer by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the company will need more such aid to continue operating. Congress might not grant the aid if the company still clings to its fancy real estate in midtown Manhattan...
...carrying off the mountain bit by bit is done by huge 450-ton power shovels that chew off 25-ton chunks of ore in a single bite and dump them into 75-ton trucks. The ore is then crushed and transported by 150-car, mile-long freight trains to Port Hedland, where it is loaded aboard freighters at the rate of 10,000 tons an hour. The boom has turned Port Hedland into the world's fifth busiest port...
Last last November there were three head-on freight train collisions that are believed to have been arranged by saboteurs as is the December bombing of a railroad roundhouse in Mexico City in which seven engines were destroyed. But the government has not let the Left take the lead in terrorism. In the State of Sinoloa in North Mexico 13 persons, including three women and a child, were killed when soldiers fired into a fiesta crowd celebrating a baptism. The government explained this, as it has similar incidents, as an attempt to stop narcotics traffic...
...copy and is a melange of Esquire and Horizon, with the flair of the long-dead peekaboo Flair. Book adaptations and artsy photographic portfolios are mixed with nonfiction articles that seem to have a very limited audience indeed. Example: "How I Rode with Harold Lewis on a Diesel Freight Train Down to Gridley, Kansas, and Back," which turns out to be exactly that...