Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin access routes, argued that it would be best to leave the problem to the soldiers on the scene. When General Lucius Clay, acting as General Eisenhower's representative, finally met with Soviet General Georgy Zhukov in June 1945 to work out an agreement for highways, air corridors, rail and canal routes into Berlin, he decided not to put the final decision in writing. Clay's reason was that he did not want to imply that he had waived free access by any route. Wrote Clay later in his book, Decision in Germany: "I must admit that...
Ball was also on hand for the memorable June 17 uprising in 1953. He has visited East Berlin "countless times" and crossed East Germany on dozens of occasions, by rail and highway, has interviewed hundreds of East Germans over the years. He has often been close to his cover subject at rallies and press conferences: "I have even attached myself to Communist May Day parades and marched past his reviewing stand in Marx-Engels-Platz...
Mikoyan's public grin soon turned into a private growl. Meeting with Japanese Premier Ikeda, he made plain the real reason for his visit: to rail against U.S. military bases in Japan. "Japan is tied to the United States through a security pact that is in fact an aggressive military pact," snarled the salesman, adding that if the Berlin crisis led to war, Japan, because of its U.S. bases, could expect a Russian attack. However, said Mikoyan, "we are making every effort to prevent war." Then he proposed to Ikeda that Russia and Japan sign...
...General Manager William Jaekle. Picking up a two-inch sheaf of papers that summarized the performance of his 22,394-mile line during the previous 24 hours, Russell skimmed rapidly through the data on passenger trains. (Russell's undisguised opinion of passenger trains is that of 19th century Rail King James J. Hill: "A passenger train, sir, is like the male teat: neither useful nor ornamental.") But his eyes brightened when he came to the figures on freight. Inked across one page in bold, red numerals was the figure 444. It meant that Russell's railroad had delivered...
...many railroaders have failed to move with the times, so have public attitudes toward the railroads. Despite dwindling railroad profits, the powerful rail unions insist on preserving many work rules that date back to 1919, still keep some 35,000 useless firemen riding modern diesels. All told, the railroads estimate, union featherbedding costs them $500 million a year. Similarly, state and local governments continue to tax railroad property an average 9% of assessed valuation v. 3% to 4% for other property. Compared with competing means of transportation, the railroads claim to be overtaxed by $140 million a year...