Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FREIGHT rates will be cut again this year by railroads to fight heavier truck competition and to attempt to stop a steady decline in car loadings. Starting in March, Eastern roads will put through an 18% to 20% reduction on all shipments of iron and steel within the area, will probably extend the cuts to other major products before the year...
...spends eight or nine hours a day on horseback. There was also a Pennsylvanian who startled the doctors by saying that he had gone back to work in the coal mines. "Hell," he said, "that's the only job I know." In schoolgirl high spirits and 40 pounds heavier was Judith Schmidt, 12, who had been chilled in a freezer before her operation (TIME...
...Francisco, ex-Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, 32, bidding for a comeback chance against Rocky Marciano next summer, scored an impressive tenth-round knockout of younger (by seven years) and heavier (by eleven pounds) Coley Wallace, the fighter who doubles for ,the hero in the movie The Joe Louis Story...
...confound the "unnamed specialists" . . . who report via TV and radio that there are no harmful effects to the cigarette smoker . . . Cancer is but one of many possible results under present investigation by groups throughout the country . . . While it is probably true that suburban or city dwellers are in general heavier smokers than those in rural areas, no true conclusion can be reached until a frank appraisal of the grave problem of air pollution can be made...
DOUGLAS Aircraft, whose DC-7 has just gone into transcontinental service (TIME, Nov. 30), is building a heavier DC-7B with 4,000-mile range (plus 16% fuel reserve) for ocean flying. Pan American has placed a $14 million order for seven, will put them into service in 1955, probably to Europe and South America...