Word: haulings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week John P. Fishwick, 55, N&W's chief executive for the past 21 months, went to Wall Street to tell analysts what they had already assumed: after deducting $15 million from earnings as a result of the Amtrak takeover of its long-haul passenger business, the Roanoke-based N&W still had a net profit last year of $63 million. That was by no means N&W's best year; in 1966 it earned $98 million. But unlike the other large Eastern railroads, which all reported losses after extraordinary expenses last year, N&W had been...
...having a mental breakdown, Falk sees more of the "screamer and worrier" he would like to be. "I'm incredibly even-natured, and I don't like that," he says. "It's better when an actor responds like a child -fast. For the short haul, I find a maniac more interesting than someone in control." Still, he is the first to admit in his best hangdog manner that it is too late for a lifelong mutt to become a high-strung thoroughbred. As he says in one of his lines in Prisoner: "Miracles don't happen...
...space that previously would only hold twelve. Even though $20,000 is still badly needed to purchase the machinery, it is estimated that this new system will save $70,000 in construction costs alone. Bemis said of the new simplicity of boat handling. "One man can launch or haul and store a boat unaided, and any boat can be selected for launching no matter where stored...
Striking Glimpse. The sudden interest in earthwork at Boeing has hardly taken the company out of the skies. On the contrary, Boeing engineers are producing ever more spectacular aircraft designs, including one for a twelve-engine "brute lifter" three times the size of the 747 jet that could haul, for example, 8,000 bbl. of crude petroleum. Recent successes in aerospace sales accounted for almost all of the company's nine-month earnings of $18.2 million this year, up nearly $1,000,000 over the same period in 1970. But Boeing's new outlook may well provide...
...Displeasure. Some townspeople gave up and fled. Others daily swept piles of dead crickets from their houses for a huge truck to haul away. Schools closed because pupils could no longer concentrate...