Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Service had to be shut own on a long section of track in order to "re-rail" the car, and a bus service was quickly established between Harvard and Kendall Squares...
...lack of jurisdiction. Encouraged, Mann packed his carpetbag in 1866 and moved on to Mobile as Federal Assessor of Internal Revenue. In 1872 he patented a design for a railroad sleeping car (consisting of a series of stateroomlike compartments) and sailed for Europe. There he leased his cars to rail lines in half a dozen countries. Eleven years later he returned to the U.S., several times a millionaire, to compete with George Pullman for the American market. Pull man won, and Mann went bankrupt. But not for long. By 1891 he had acquired full control of Town Topics from...
...strategic development of the week came along the Y-shaped network of railroad lines leading into and out of Hanoi (see map). Flights of Air Force Thunderchiefs and Phantoms shattered three rail bridges on the already-mangled Hanoi-Lao Kay line, chewed up 300 yards of track and a railway yard. The Lao Kay-Lang Son line is the only rail link between Red China's Yunnan province and the rest of China, and with the U.S. hitting it twice a week since Sept. 4, all traffic to Yunnan is now moving by highway or air. So far, Peking...
Deflated Balloons. Lamentable as the vandalism was, it made little difference. The following day, demolition crews moved into the evacuated fairgrounds to pick up where the tourists had left off. The balloons above the ten Brass Rail Restaurants were deflated, and the food stands themselves were prepared for the bulldozer. The motorless Fords and Mercurys at the Ford Pavilion were packed away on car trailers and shipped off to Detroit, where the company will add the motors, sell them to employees at cut rates. The talking Lincoln statue from the Illinois Pavilion was carefully crated, sent by moving...
...Advantageous though the delay was to Central, it has already cost, by conservative estimate, $240 million in potential savings-and will cost a lot more before the ICC makes its final decision, expected in early 1966. The ICC has on several occasions overruled Justice Department objections to approve rail mergers...