Word: rail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holt snuggled up to the Mayaguez. Rifles at the ready, the Marines climbed over the rail to the freighter; the Holt's deck crew trained machine guns on the Mayaguez's deck. With the Marines came a crew to sail the Mayaguez to freedom and a demolition team to check the ship for bombs and booby traps. To the Marines' surprise, no one was aboard. In the galley were bowls of warm rice and tea, but the diners?possibly Cambodians ?had disappeared. The disappointed Marines hoisted a U.S. flag on the freighter's fantail and awaited further developments...
...reins, quickly dropped back to a distant twelfth, far from his usual position close to the pace. Bombay Duck, bred for speed, held the early lead, but as the stallions pounded down the backstretch, Avatar, a California mount, moved up to challenge. Foolish Pleasure, running on the rail, was still no better than seventh. "He looked as if he wasn't handling the track too well," Jolley explained later...
...insisted on higher pay increases and a stronger cost-of-living escalator clause to protect their members against future inflation. Five railway unions have rejected a hefty 41% wage and benefit boost offered by management, forcing the Ford Administration to order a 60-day postponement of a threatened nationwide rail strike...
...anyone who thinks railroads are a thing of the past should see what Europe and Japan are proving: high-speed, modernized rail service uses less petroleum per passenger, uses less acreage, and will help give us breathable air again. For intermediate distances it can be cheaper and quicker, quieter and more comfortable. But we need an Administration that really wants to see this come about...
...wreck of the Rock Island is just the latest sign of growing trouble on the U.S. rails and the failure of the Government to produce a rational rail policy for the nation. An ICC staff estimate predicts that the industry's first-quarter loss will be "worse than has ever before occurred, even during the Great Depression of the 1930s." No fewer than eight Northeast roads are in bankruptcy. And the Department of Transportation's new Secretary, William Coleman Jr., cautions: "It would be foolish simply to subsidize the rails. I think 20% of the nation...