Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, by a 317-to-24 vote in the House, a $90 million program to develop high-speed intercity rail service. The program, already approved in a similar form by the Senate, aims to lessen highway congestion by improving commuter service with trains that will go up to 150 miles an hour, initially on the Washington-New York-Boston...
...enough of his African nationalist pride to stay on speaking terms with white-supremacist regimes that most other black Africans have boycotted. Kaunda's enforced moderation has fallen on deaf ears in Rhodesia, whose racist Premier Ian Smith seems bent on severing all ties with Zambia-including the rail line. "There's going to be a hell of a trouble unless the people down there can see sense quickly," says Zambian Vice President Reuben Kamanga...
...threat of economic strangulation has forced Kaunda to seek another outlet for his copper. Last month he met with Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere to talk over long-simmering plans for a 1,000-mile rail line eastward to Dar es Salaam. The railway would cost a staggering $200 million or so, but Nyerere seems as interested in pushing it through as is Kaunda. It would turn Dar es Salaam into East Africa's busiest port, open up a massive, uninhabited southern region that is known to contain valuable coal deposits. Besides, Nyerere would like to break...
...merging railroads, which are concentrated in the northeast and midwest, plan to take in the Erie-Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine, the Delaware & Hudson, the Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Both prospering, the roads aim not only at giving the East two competitively balanced giant rail networks (each serving precisely 115 cities of more than 50,000 population) but also at rescuing from possible oblivion the four faltering, largely commuter lines (only the Delaware & Hudson is currently profitable). Says Tuohy: "We concluded that a merger that would take care of the indigent railroads would be most constructive...
...some effect. In the wake of the U.S. Marines' victory over four veteran Viet Cong battalions at Chu Lai, the guerrillas were lying low; in fact, they have initiated no action above battalion-size in eight weeks. North of the 17th parallel, U.S. planes plastered a power plant, rail lines and bridges...