Word: lackawanna
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...drilling 500 bore holes and pumping floods of silt-bearing water down them. But the deep-down fire still burned. The fumes got so bad that mine officials kept watch round the clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...
Budget Pinch? While Mitchell grappled for the facts and a position, the steel impasse grew in bitterness. When 19,000 Bethlehem Steel workers in Lackawanna...
...time that the Pennsy is more anxious to merge than the Central, which has had its doubts about managing the $5.6 billion behemoth that would be formed by a merger. Meanwhile the seven smaller roads-Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, New York, Chicago & St. Louis, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western-that had huddled in October to discuss what to do in the face of a Central-Pennsy merger also dropped their own merger talks...
...Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad asked the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission for permission to drop 40 suburban passenger trains, citing lower freight revenues which fail to support suburban passenger losses...
...Lehigh Valley Railroad moaned that it was going broke from its $4,000-$5,000,000-a-year passenger deficit in commuter-heavy New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, said it would ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to let it end all passenger service. A few days later the Lackawanna Railroad threatened to drop all New Jersey passenger runs unless it was excused from paying property taxes...