Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodbye, SAM. No one could say, however, that U.S. aircraft were not active and to a considerable degree effective. Though the Hanoi-Haiphong industrial complex remained inviolate, American planes kept up their interdictory hammering of roads, rail lines and military posts. A flight of Navy Skyhawks from the carrier Independence took out the third of some 20 Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile sites-this one just 52 miles northeast of Hanoi. In 90 dizzy seconds, the Skyhawks swooped on their prey at 570 m.p.h., slammed 500-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs into the site and watched...
...After that I knew it was all over. I didn't wait to be ridden out of town, but I knew the rail was coming. Within four or five days, I packed my bags, closed down my office and moved...
American Machine & Foundry has several bidders for its seven-train mono rail, which cost $5,500,000 to erect but will go for about $1,000,000. For $5,000 each, Greyhound has already sold all 62 of its 54-passenger glider trains to 29 buyers, including Mack Trucks, the University of Connecticut, several amusement parks and the city of Stamford, Conn. Borden Co. will pay about $35,000 to the Wisconsin pavilion for the world's largest cheese 34,591-lb., 14½-ft.-long cheddar, which the company plans to haul in a refrigerated "cheesemobile" and display...
Almost any news could be pertinent, since Wagons-Lits operates its rail business in 26 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and has other interests in 50 countries. To serve its 2,260,000 travelers a year, it has its own bakeries, laundries and wine cellars, provides 5,000,000 meals and a million sandwiches a year. From his elegant offices on Paris' Boulevard Haussmann, Widhoff carefully picks the enterprises in which to invest, usually buys only a portion of each but insists on full management...
...country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs $1.87 by water, $4.87 by rail...