Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Railway Association (a federal agency set up to restructure rail service in the Midwest and Northeast) for "intentional neglect" of its financial woes...
Last week, three days after the USRA had snubbed its plea for a $30 million emergency loan, the debt-ridden Rock Island Line became the first major railroad outside the Northeast since World War II to file for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Rescue operations began almost immediately. To avoid stranding 13,000 commuters, Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority promised to take over service in and out of the city. Meanwhile, the Interstate Commerce Commission summoned representatives from 60 railroads to Washington and indicated that it will dismember the 7,500-mile road. The ice will parcel...
Grand plans for reorganizing the ailing railroads of the U.S. Northeast sometimes seem to come along more regularly than the trains that run on them. But the one that emerged from Washington last week could well become a reality. Drafted by the U.S. Railway Association, a federal agency created last January by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act, it would perform costly and radical surgery on the deteriorating rail system that stretches over 17 states in the Northeast and Midwest...
...hands, and the fall of his government is not likely to make a crucial difference. Beyond that, there remain obstacles to the spread of Communist influence in Southeast Asia. Neighboring Thailand, presumably the next endangered domino, is well equipped to resist Vietnamese influence. Communist insurgents in the northeast have achieved little so far, and Thailand has sufficient economic and military strength-including 25,000 U.S. military personnel and 350 aircraft-to successfully counter any threat from outside...
...Spanish-born Harvard student who later rocketed to fame as one of the great early 20th century philosophers, arrived at Harvard to find his "first room, on the ground floor in the northeast corner of Hollis, was one of the cheapest to be had in Cambridge: the rent was forty-four dollars a year. I had put it first for that reason on my list of rooms, and got my first choice. It was so cheap because it had no bedroom, no water, and no heating...