Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospects for a tunnel grew brighter and brighter, French truckers became alarmed that the rail-only link might cut their earnings by forcing them to piggyback through the tunnel. Joined by British and French steelmakers, who stand to sell about 800,000 tons of steel if a bridge is built, the truckers set up a pro-bridge group headed by shrewd, forceful Jules Moch, last Interior Minister of France under the Fourth Republic...
Time For Self-Help. In Washington the betting is that the ICC will be favorably inclined toward the merger. Whether Justice Department trustbusters will agree is an open question, but given continuing truck competition and the fact that two other giant Eastern rail networks are in prospect, few railroadmen can see how a Pennsy-Central merger would create a danger of monopoly. Said one Washington railroad expert: "The Northeastern railroads are on the skids. If the Government can't or won't give them any relief, then at least they should be allowed to do something for themselves...
...subtitled, The Importance of Being Italian. For few other films have so aptly illustrated the prevailing rule for movie makers: If you can't good, be foreign. If Girl with a Suitcase had been born an American movie, its producers would have been ridden out of town on a rail. But it is Italian, and therefore endowed with the historic decadence of old Rome, the gusty vivacity of the Latin temperament, the sophisticated air of the European continent, and all other benefits automatically accruing to foreign films. It hardly even matters that it's rotten...
...rocketlike rise makes it a serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Another fast comer is Interstate Vending Co. of Chicago, which has bought 25 companies in the past year and recently acquired New York's Brass Rail restaurant and catering chain. (A pioneer in preparing restaurant-quality dinners for vending, Brass Rail supplies machine-served meals to General Electric employees at G.E.'s New York home office.) Interstate's President Ronald Wolff, 31, has made himself one of vending's new millionaires since he started...
...course when a sudden shift in the wind direction caused the sail to jibe accidentally. The main boom swung across, carrying both Horn (acting as downwind boomvang) and Drake with it. Pring just managed to place himself in their path and block them from plummeting over the boat's rail...