Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nile perch, a predator that weighs as much as 160 Ibs. in the river and 300 lbs. in the lake. Three-day excursions can be booked with East African Airways from Entebbe to Queen Elizabeth Park (cost: $78) or Murchison Park ($86), and there is an assortment of river, rail and car trips that provide closeup views of the animals. At Murchison travelers can take the "Royal" cottages (where Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth stayed two years/ago) for $7.25; overflow guests use tents ($4.50) set up under papyrus-thatch shelters. All have to be alert for the elephants that...
SHAREHOLDERS' O.K. was given at the Northern Pacific annual meeting to the road's plan to form the nation's largest rail net by merging with the Great Northern and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. I.C.C. will hold hearings on the proposal this summer...
MERGER-HUNGRY New York Central is asking ICC to include it in the pending Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate and Wabash combine that might later join the Pennsylvania Railroad. Central fears being left out as the East moves toward two giant rail networks centered about the Pennsy and the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...huge inner parking lot where the center of the city used to be. Now the Inner Belt is not so offensive as some plans from this point of view, but it is offensive. Almost any way of spending the same amount of money on transportation (preferably rail transportation) would pay off in far more mobility for Bostonians and far less confusion and ugliness...
...RAIL NETS in the East will be proposed to ICC by the New York Central: one built around the Pennsylvania, the other around the Central, Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio. By this move, Central hopes to force its way into the pending merger of the C. & O. and B. & O., to avoid losing business to the new combine...