Word: freights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned the lesson of diversification the hard way. It was originally founded by Diamond Jim solely to manufacture freight cars, then went into presses and pressed steel-cyclical areas vulnerable to economic ups and downs. By the 1950s, USI was not doing well. Billera joined the company as treasurer in 1953 at the insistence of USI's bankers, and threatened to resign several times over what he considered to be the company's wrong-headed diversification policy. In 1965, Billera took over as president, and set out to put his own ideas into effect. He had already...
...prosperous doctor. His childhood was comfortable. He seemed destined for Yale and a happily-ever-after life, but just before he was to go to New Haven his father died and there was no money for college. O'Hara went on to a spectacularly varied assortment of jobs-freight clerk, steel-mill worker, soda jerk, gas-meter reader and deckhand-before turning to writing...
Firecrackers Banging. The same improvisational quality pervades the movie; breast-twisting rapes occur whenever the plot flags; sloe-eyed, heavy-breathing women chuff across the screen like freight trains; Dax goes through his life phases (from peasant to gigolo to millionaire) with a single expression -that of a man with a pebble in his shoe. Masochists, lovers of camp and chroniclers of the collapse of Hollywood will sift for years The Adventurers' riches of embarrassment. There is the waste of Charles Aznavour as a kinky sadist and Anna Moffo doing her mini-Maria Callas. There is Ernest Borgnine, trapped...
...siege. Gun-toting police and even armored cars patrolled runways; Israeli and Arab airliners were shunted to separate service areas. Baggage was Xrayed, stethoscoped, or simply scrutinized top to bottom, and some passengers were frisked for weapons. Briefly, nine of the 16 airlines that serve Israel suspended airmail and freight services. But Israel complained that such restrictions seemed to punish the victims more than the victimizers, and by week's end all but two lines had resumed full service...
Lumberjack freight-train images