Word: railing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tick off an impressive list of U.S. industries that will suffer because of last week's House action: fertilizers will lose $125 million; fuels, $35 million; metals, $85 million; chemicals, $75 million; pulp and paper, $25 million; machinery and equipment, $150 million; vehicles and parts, $80 million; rail equipment, $20 million; rubber, $15 million; various other industries, $100 million...
...lived and prospered despite its isolation inside Communist territory. The economic cost of accomplishing that feat is now getting higher and higher. Surrounded by bitterly hostile East Germany, the city (pop. 2,200,000) must bring in most of its food, fuel and raw materials through its air, rail, autobahn and canal lifelines with West Germany, 110 miles away. And to keep their $10 billion-a-year economy afloat under such circumstances, West Berliners have been forced to rely increasingly on powerful infusions of capital and outright subsidies from the West German government...
Some 300,000 British railroad workers last week went on slowdown. They not only refused all overtime work but zealously began conforming with all the rigmarole of the 240 regulations in the nationalized British Railways rule book. Guards elaborately checked rail-car doors and couplings, meticulously counted the contents of first-aid kits in locomotives. Engineers took 25-minute tea breaks, stopping many trains on the tracks between stations. Timetables all but vanished in the resulting confusion, and for several days about half the country's passenger trains were delayed or canceled...
...same time, freight service, which now accounts for 86% of the Santa Fe's rail revenues, is being improved. The Santa Fe last January inaugurated what it calls "Super C" Flexivan service. The "Super C" freights make the 2,200-mile run from Chicago to the West Coast in 40 hours, faster than the Super Chief...
...required to pay new taxes on their cargoes, and after July 15 all West German travelers will be required to carry passports (in the past they needed only identity cards). In all, the East Germans will collect some $20 million per year in fees on the 13 water, rail and highway routes that connect the city with West Germany...