Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long-haul truck driver...
RAILROADS that haul coal would be in for a windfall. Hays T. Watkins, chairman of the Chessie System, the nation's largest coal hauler, expects 100 new mines to open along the line's routes in the next five years. That would add 33 million tons a year to the system's coal freight, 50% more than its present volume. All that will require more coal cars and enhance the revenues of railroad-equipment manufacturers like Pullman...
...billion scheme on California's American River provides a case study in the realities of water politics. Governor Jerry Brown, an ardent environmentalist, had campaigned for office as an opponent of new dams, but the severe drought, which has forced some of his Northern California constituents to haul water by the bucket, has changed Brown's mind. When Carter put Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown's stand in favor of building...
...Engineers now estimates Tenn-Tom will return only 87? for every dollar spent. The chief cargo on the inland waterway would be coal carried by barges. According to one official of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which is suing to stop construction, "the money this is costing would let us haul all the coal of western Kentucky for 500 years for free." Argues another observer: "If nature gave this country the Mississippi River, there is no reason the Corps of Engineers can't do the same thing and call it Tenn...
...problem in Marin County?" he asked his scientific colleagues. "Is it too little water? Or is it too many people? Has the area been developed beyond the capability of its resources to support people?" He suggested that perhaps people should live where water is available rather than haul water to where they want to live...