Word: provisos
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...stimulate $600 million worth of transit-car purchases over a decade, also mean an additional $400 million in sales for such busbuilders as General Motors and the Flxible Co. of Dayton. Whatever the total, U.S. equipment makers will get all of it. Congress tacked a little-noticed "Buy American" proviso into...
...started quite innocently, when in 1878, one girl convinced three Harvard professors to teach her Latin, Greek, and English. The next year 38 professors were giving 27 young ladies instruction, and in 1882 Radcliffe became an institution. The chaperone that was set up that year, a proviso that "no Harvard AB's ever be given to women," took 81 years to grow...
...weakness as an author," Conrad Aiken asks in Blue Voyage, "that I appear incapable of presenting a theme energetically and simply. I must always wrap it up in tissue upon tissue of proviso and aspect; see it from a hundred angles . . . producing in the end not so much a unitary work of art as a phantasmagoric world of disordered colors and sounds; a world without design or purpose...
...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...