Word: railing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of major cities on the West Coast encouraged packers and farmers to set up markets at Denver, Kansas City, Omaha and other points closer home. At the same time, the spread of new highways and the upsurge of the trucking industry offset Chicago's advantage as a rail center. Livestock production spread east and south. In World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing...
...RATE RAIL FARES will be offered by Chicago & North Western on its Chicago-Minneapolis-St. Paul run to compete with bus lines. New coach fares ($15.60 round trip) will equal bus fares, and meal costs will be limited...
...crime for which he was executed last week-the rape of a 16-year-old Negro girl-but that did not make his 158th execution easy. With prison officials, Reid sat down to the traditional Texas execution eve "breakfast" (scrambled eggs, pork chops, coffee), later leaned casually on a rail, notebook in hand, as Williams entered the execution chamber. But another reporter noted that Reid pursed his lips as Williams took the first 15-second 1,800-volt jolt. The reporter later asked Methodist Reid, "Were you praying then?'' Answered Reid: "I always pray...
...mark its 125th birthday this year, the Long Island Rail Road, busiest U.S. commuter line, decided to spruce up its grimy face and its public image. Last week the railroad's coaches sported the latest evidence of its campaign: a gay new insignia to replace the drab, 100-year-old L.I. in a circle. The insignia: a red, yellow and blue emblem showing a harried commuter rushing to catch a train, eyes glued to his watch and hand gripping a briefcase and umbrella. The new insignia for "The Route of the Dashing Commuter," is designed to humanize the Long...
Meantime, another $275 million would be spent to develop Ghana's bauxite reserves and to bolster rail lines running to the Tema area, where a smelter would turn out 220,000 tons of aluminum a year. The metal would be shipped from a port abuilding at Tema...