Word: rail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sarah Lawrence co-eds must depend on their dates and the New Haven rail-road for transportation to New York, since car permission is rarely granted. Safety, inadequate parking facilities, and a desire to keep the college residential are the stated reasons for this regulation, which is unpopular among the students. One dean added that banning cars has the extra advantage of eliminating one difference between the financial haves and have-nots...
...nation's harried railroads, who hoped for a boost in booming 1959, the strike dealt a smashing blow. In 13 weeks the roads lost an estimated $459 million in gross revenues. Railroad employment on Sept. 30 fell to 797,195, the lowest since 1900. Third-quarter rail earnings, when they come out in the next several weeks, will not make pleasant reading...
...RAIL MERGER between Erie and Lackawanna was approved by stockholders, needs only ICC's O.K., which is expected. Merger will save $13 million a year on the two roads' 3,200-mile system between Hoboken, N.J. and Chicago...
Balloons & Barricades. The first relief expedition that set out by rail from Tientsin bogged down when the Boxers burned the bridges. A second was mounted with agonizing slowness and comic-opera disorganization. The 20.ooo-man force was a command nightmare, as seven nations (Japan. Britain, Russia. France, Italy, Austria, the U.S.) raced for glory. Nevertheless, the melee helped train such young military men as U.S. Marine Lieut. Smedley Butler, and British Naval Officers David Beatty and John Jellicoe. successively commanders in chief of the British fleet in World...
...Sensing a good moment to strike the first blow, eleven nonoperating rail unions served notice on the nation's railroads that when the present three-year agreement expires on Oct. 31, they expect wage increases of11? (earlier the five operating unions demanded increases of 12-14%). But management showed that it is ready to stand as firm and united as the steelmakers against such demands. Under a group insurance plan, any railroad struck will have financial aid for as long as a year...