Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landlady's concern -- is her lodges Jack the Ripper or not? And when he went out at night, I had a special staircase built right at the top of the studio. I had the whole four flights built, and all you saw was the white hand going down the rail as he went out. And that's when it first started...
...true. I'll tell you, Saul Bass asked me if he could design a sequence, so I said, "Yes, you can design the sequence of the detective going into the house." So he made up a series of sketches: feet on the stairs, hands on the rail, moving through the bannister with his legs going up, close...
...Pakistani suppliers, Calcutta's jute mills have been forced to reduce output 25% , while some Dacca cigarette factories have closed down completely because no tobacco is being imported from West Bengal. Travel between the two countries is almost nonexistent, postal and telegraph communications operate far below standard, and rail, road and river traffic is severely curtailed in both nations. India and Pakistan may not be actively at war, but they are not at peace either...
...therefore with great relief that Canadians last week saw trains moving again after a seven-day strike. Trickling back to work were 119,000 members of 16 unions that had idled the big Canadian Pacific and Canadian National rail roads, as well as five smaller lines. Back also went employees of telegraph systems and essential ferry lines, which are under the striking unions' jurisdiction...
Waiting for that other shoe to drop, Canadians last week counted the dam age from their first major rail strike since 1950. Estimates were that it had cost $ 15 million a day in vanished wages, railroad revenues and losses to business. It had isolated for a time such areas as Prince Edward Island, which depends largely on railroad-owned ferry service to the mainland; it had also caused monumental traffic jams in Montreal, where people who normally use commuter trains flocked to work in cars. Most important, the lack of train service had doubled demands for passenger and cargo space...