Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lightweight passenger trains, once looked on as the railroads' salvation in their fight against declining revenues and loss of passengers to the airlines, were in trouble last week...
...Rock Island railroad removed the nation's first operative lightweight train, the Talgo-type Jet Rocket, from the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run, put it to carrying commuters on the short haul between Joliet and Chicago...
Railroaders themselves are increasingly skeptical of the value of lightweight trains for main-line service. The Pennsylvania, after experimenting with lightweight trains between Washington and Philadelphia, ordered six new light electric cars of a more conventional design from Budd Co. for commuter service. The Chicago & North Western checked lightweight trains, but instead ordered 13 conventional-weight cars last week from Pullman-Standard. Surveying the trend, N. C. Dezendorf, boss of General Motors' electromotive division, admitted: "Several years ago, when lightweight trains were first discussed, there was tremendous enthusiasm among railroads for them. I was turning down orders. There...
Four varsity lightweight boats raced over the 1 5/16 mile lower Charles course for possession of the cup, whose existence is "so traditional no one knows when it started," according to Joe Brown, freshman crew coach...
...Halliburton got his break in 1919 when he controlled a wild oil well for the late Oklahoma Wildcatter "Wild Bill" Skelly. formed his own company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer production of lightweight (aluminum) luggage. Halliburton belittled the "good old days" as days of backbreaking labor, heralded instead modern "mechanization," once (in 1935) proclaimed he would hire no one who had ever accepted government relief...