Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down. Demand for airline travel October was up 25% to 50% over August, and fares were down below railroad fares with Pullman accommodations. Examples of the new low fares: New York to Cincinnati ($28.20 by plane v. $30.39* by rail); New York to Chicago ($32.85 v. $36.93*); New York to Los Angeles...
...Allied Council agreed to end press and postal censorship, warning publishers to toe the anti-Nazi line. It restored a limited sort of rail service, relaxed the galling ban on travel between the U.S., Russian, British and French zones. Now food, fuel and people could begin to move between those drum-tight compartments. Finally the Council sent secret "recom mendations" to the four Governments on recognition of the newly broadened Provisional government...
With trains like these, 74-year-old Edward G. Budd believes that plenty of passengers will still travel by rail in the postwar air and auto age. But Budd wants speed too: he holds that the railroads' ultimate goal should be a 50-hour coast-to-coast streamliner, charging $70 in the coaches...
...Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...
...m.p.h. when he reached the flat again-somehow still on the tracks-and his supply train roared through eight stations before it finally stopped. The reward which he got from a grateful Red Army commander was the coveted Order of the Red Star; it entitled him to free rail-transport anywhere in the Soviet Union...