Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defying the Administration-just as it had during last summer's $3 billion, 45-day airline strike-the militant International Association of Machinists triggered a walkout that laid off 600,000 rail employees and paralyzed 95% of the nation's 216,000-mile rail network. Lyndon Johnson, in no mood for a repetition of the airlines debacle, called the strike a "national crisis" and urged Congress to take immediate action. Swiftly, the House and Senate found the formula that had eluded them for so long. Barely 48 hours after it had begun, the first nationwide railroad strike...
...Photographers. Brief as it was, the strike furnished a foretaste of the chaos that might have been. In New York and Chicago, some 300,000 rail commuters either turned to car pools and buses or stayed home. Near Los Angeles, 1,600 boxcars loaded with perishables were rushed to refrigerated storehouses. Across the U.S., 400,000 rail cars were stranded...
...knocked down in the courts. The buyer will get 14,000 pieces of automotive equipment, 11,000 trailers, and 7,000 terminals in 50 states. With a new, more flexible approach to the use of those assets, and without the stringent regulations that guide it as a rail holding REA might very well be an interesting property...
...officers in Saigon would dispute that. Air Force men credit the raids with destroying about 85% of the North's power-generating capacity, 30% of its rail system, half of its air force, 3,000 trucks, 4,000 watercraft and one-fifth of all men and materiel headed for infiltration into the South. McNamara further claims that 400,000 to 500,000 North Vietnamese have had to be diverted to repair bomb damage...
...also bring enormous benefits to the whole troubled area. Israel, for example, would give Jordan-whose only present port is on the Gulf of Aqaba-an outlet to the Mediterranean. It would promote a joint program of economic and social advancement and a regional communications system that would permit rail and road traffic between Egypt and its Arab brothers from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon...