Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eastern Ukraine and the trans-Ural area form Russia's most efficient steel" making region, providing 75% of all Soviet steel capacity. Russia's best coal comes from the Kuznetsk Basin (or Kuzbas), halfway across Russia. From there, it is a long haul to the Ural mills, to say nothing of the mills in European Russia. The steel mills of central Russia must transport their ores and coal from the Ukraine in the south and from the war-developed mine at Vorkuta (also a famed slave-labor camp) on the Arctic Circle...
...extended tortuous runways miles underground, forced workers away from the dull, dangerous pits to other work. So archaic and complicated is the system that only 25% of Britain's mine workers directly dig coal, against 70% in the U.S. In the time it takes one British miner to haul five tons of coal to the surface, one Hollander hauls 20 to 25 tons, one American 50 tons...
...Long Haul. The pipeline, which brings Aramco's oil closer to Western European markets, saves a fleet of 65 tankers by eliminating the ten-day, 3,500-mile haul around the Arabian Peninsula (see map). For its builder, Burt E. Hull, 66, a bluff, weatherbeaten Texan, who has been building pipelines for 40 years, it was the biggest job since he built the wartime Big and Little Inch pipelines. As president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co., Hull now bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard...
Walter Chrysler, a topnotch railroad mechanic, had no idea how to drive. He hired a team of horses to haul the car home from the freight office in Oelwein, Iowa. But he spent three months taking it apart and putting it together again. By that time, he had a pretty good notion of how an automobile worked...
...most radical change in design since steel boxcars were first introduced in 1914. Though it is 30% lighter than a steel car, the plywood car has withstood three times as much pressure in "squeeze" (collision) tests between two cars. Thus it is not only cheaper to haul but could trim the big-$115 million in 1949-railroad bill for damage to freight...