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...supernutritious cracker that had a shel life of about five years. Inspections revealed that the crackers had become unfit for human consumption. Partly for thi: reason, the city decided to dispose of the survival rations and agreed to pay Edward Barniak, an upstate farmer, $1 a ton to haul them away. Barniak should do rather well on the deal, since he gets the medicines and other supplies, as well as 7,000 tons of crackers. Even they have a use. After being ground up, they are fed to his cattle, which so far have suffered no ill effects. Barniak...
...Neal has been moving to dismantle this structure. The ice has abolished a rule preventing companies that haul their own goods-Sears or Safeway, for example-from picking up cargo from other shippers. Partly because this rule forced company trucks to return empty from hauls between warehouse and factory or store, one of every ten truck-miles driven in the U.S. has been "deadheaded." O'Neal has further decreed that organizers of a new truck line need prove only that they will "serve a useful public purpose" to be allowed to operate. He has also scrapped an ancient...
...brighter for a 1979 bill giving railroads more freedom to set rates; railmen are for it. Interestingly, O'Neal doubts that rail deregulation will do much good. He fears that it would be used to hike rates, not cut them, and considers trucking deregulation more important. Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell, he is probably right...
When you build a subway tunnel, you've got to move all the dirt that's underground out of the way. The usual way to do that is through a hole--known in the trade as a haul shaft...
Unfortunately for the construction firm hired by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which is attempting to dig such a hole at the corner of Mass. Ave and Garfield St.--building a haul shaft is a very dirty and noisy operation...