Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western railroads get the worst of this arrangement. In the U.S., the heaviest flow of bulk-product rail traffie moves from West to East, as Western states ship their grains and other raw materials eastward for finishing. Once a Western-owned boxcar has ar rived in, say, New York, an Eastern operator simply takes it over and keeps it-paying that nominal rental fee dictated by the Association of American Railroads. The two lines currently hardest hit by this system are the Great Northern, which owns 22,800 boxcars but now has only about 48% of that number...
...greater rate-setting leeway last year passed the Senate, now is stalled in the House. Still undaunted, the ICC ordered that all railroads receiving boxcars from the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific promptly unload them and return them to their corporate owners within 24 hours. If the receiving rail lines ignore this order, the ICC will probably have to go into the courts...
...left-wing influence. The reason: deference to the rapidly growing opposition from right-wing and Catholic circles to restrictive government measures. The reaction of Barcelona's clergy to this first police violation of ecclesiastical property in the postwar era was prompt and stinging. Parish priests were instructed to rail against the police intrusion and denial of the right of assembly in their Sunday sermons last week. One, following the call to the traditional prayer "for the health of the Chief of State," also pointedly asked for prayers for "our companions, the students, who are passing through such difficult hours...
...Perhaps the best indication of the church's changed attitude toward mixed marriages is the ruling that they may be performed with the same ritualistic majesty as the wedding of two Catholics instead of being treated as lesser unions to be consecrated al most furtively outside the altar rail...
...spilling them out onto the track. The empty sled rattled on across the finish line while rescuers rushed to its crew. One had a concussion and a broken cheekbone, another was badly bruised, a third was unhurt. Driver Zardini was dead, his head crushed by the wooden safety rail...