Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Floyd Wilson yesterday expressed concern over the team's three game haul this week. Bemoaning the fact that his squad had no games over the Christmas holidays, he said "the team has played fewer games than ever before by this time...
...possibility of success exists. But in leading his listeners to think that the U.S. may be on the verge of bargaining away NATO's strength, or about to make a cynical deal with the Russians, Harold Stassen flew his trial balloon too high, forced Secretary Dulles to haul it down discreetly at his press conference...
Apart from ships now finishing the Port Said job, the U.N. has 31 Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Belgian and German ships available to haul at the 27 wrecks farther south. Still to be negotiated is the question of whether Nasser will let British-manned U.N. salvage vessels move down to help on this...
...railroads, one New York-Chicago trucker was able to chop his trip costs so much that his profit margin quintupled. Eastern Motor Express, Cooper-Jarrett, Mid-States Freight Lines, Spector Freight System, and Denver Chicago Trucking Co. currently use piggyback for some 10% to 20% of all their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest U.S. truckers, ships 600 trailers weekly by piggyback. As a result, the line has laid off some 1,000 of its original 1,350 drivers, is also planning to sell part of its 500-unit tractor fleet...
...Mexico loan, $23,260,000, was the last installment of a $150 million credit earmarked for Mexico by the Export-Import Bank in 1950 to cover a variety of projects. One of the Mexican railroad systems' biggest problems is a lack of engines to haul its rolling stock, so about half the money will be used to buy diesel locomotives, both road and switcher types. Most of the remaining cash will be spent on rails, switches, communication equipment and electrical supplies...