Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currency reserves are at a record level. To Diem's credit is a successful land-reform program, lower rents for peasants, a boom in light industry; with the help of almost $2 billion in U.S. aid, he has built a network of roads, irrigation projects, power plants and rail lines...
Mandarin in the Marshes. But the Annamese warriors were no match for the French, who arrived in the mid-19th century to cut roads and rail lines through the jungle, introduce rubber and expand the rice area for the profit of Paris. But the conquerors were not suffered docilely. As early as 1912, an anti-French nationalist organization called the Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi (Association for the Restoration of Viet Nam) was operating from Canton...
...landmarks have had as many incarnations as Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Converted from a rail depot by P. T. Barnum in 1873, the Garden in 1890 moved into new quarters that were designed by Stanford White, the great architect who was shot to death on its roof garden 16 years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened...
...Marsh, "would not even be in keeping with a plan to consolidate Western railroads into as few as two competing systems." Echoed Western Pacific's own President Frederic B. Whitman: if the ICC approved the SoPac's plans, "they would do it on the basis that a rail monopoly is a good thing...
...first, up-from-the-roundhouse railroaders grumbled that Lawyer Alpert did not know a trestle from a tort-but none could question his zeal. Repeatedly, Alpert has argued that i) commuter travel is necessary, 2) the commuters cannot be expected to bear all the costs of the rail service they require and 3) somebody...