Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's largest railroad, the Pennsylvania, last week reached over to the nation's eleventh largest for its new chief: Stuart Thomas Saunders, 54, a Harvard Law grad ('34) who made an impressive record as president of the money-making Norfolk & Western. He succeeds Chairman James M. Symes, retiring at 66 after 47 years with the Pennsy...
...NORFOLK, Va. May 30--The Navy announced tonight it has definitely found the sunken submarine Thresher...
...TEMPEST Norfolk...
Better Blends. A good example of the coal-rail partnership is the Norfolk & Western, which runs coal directly to port out of the rich Appalachian fields. In operation at Hampton Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos...
...flight follows a great circle route, somewhat extended to keep over international waters. From Havana, the plane flies northeast over the Atlantic parallel to the U.S. coastline; roughly opposite Norfolk, Va., it zigs to a course between Greenland and Iceland to a point beyond the North Cape, then zags southward toward Murmansk-its first landfall after Havana. Flying time to Moscow: 13 hr. :55 min. Bucking headwinds in the other direction, the flight takes 18 hours, and even with a refueling stop at Murmansk the planes often reach Havana with a perilously low fuel reserve...