Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...railroads are now willing to lavish funds on this lucrative freight operation. Last week in Chicago, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway dedicated its new Proviso Piggyback Plaza, a 20-acre, twelve-track staging point for road trailers moving by train. This week the Baltimore & Ohio is completing an $11 million project in which 18 tunnels are being enlarged, or are being bypassed altogether, to clear the way for piggy back trains moving west. The Southern is busy on a similar $35 million program on the line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga...
...right of way has also been cleared for piggybacking by the emergence of companies that now buy and lease piggy back cars and trailers, leaving railroads free to spend capital on track and tunnel improvement and such new yards as Proviso Piggyback. The most energetic of the leasing companies is Philadelphia-based Trailer Train Co., whose stock is owned by 35 railroads and by the U.S. Freight Co., the nation's largest freight forwarder. The company started with 530 piggyback cars in 1956, now has 16,000 moving around the U.S. - and is ordering hundreds of new ones each...
...House Ways and Means Committee two weeks ago, but the so-called "Puritan ethic" amendment touched a responsive chord in the nation. Encouraged by the reaction, House Republicans met last week, overwhelmingly agreed to introduce an even tougher amendment when the bill reaches the floor this week. The proviso would delay the tax cut unless the President, in January's budget message, promises to hold spending to $97 billion for the current fiscal year (v. an already budgeted $98.8 billion) and to $98 billion for fiscal 1965. Without such a rider, said Wisconsin's John Byrnes, ranking Republican...
...opportunity to prove Fidel Castro a puppet, he needn't merely imitate the cartoonists by calling him one. There seems to be no reason why the President couldn't have announced an intended blockade, conditional on Cuban refusal to come to terms, a la his nuclear testing proviso last March...
...field disagreed, opposed dealing with any Laotian leader who seemed soft on Communism. They argued that the U.S.-trained and equipped Royal Laotian Army of 28,000 men under General Phoumi was the only bulwark against a Red takeover. The Pentagon generally backed the CIA, but with the proviso that, under no conditions, should U.S. armed forces be plunged into the landlocked, trackless jungles of Laos...