Word: railings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners and West Berlin industries, send some 14,000 truckloads over the road monthly, plus some 600 barges through the Mittelland Canal, and a dozen freight cars daily by rail...
...Autobahn snakes along over no fewer than 29 vulnerable bridges, among them the quartermile span over the Elbe River, still only half replaced since its total destruction by Allied bombers in World War II; the railroad has 49 bridges. Destruction of a single bridge or a short stretch of rail or highway would halt a column or train in country commanded by superior forces...
...refused to sign a new U.M.W. contract under which miners would get $14.25 a day to enter a mine, 76? more per ton to load coal) have spurred mine owners to mechanize. But Harlan's shallow (32 in. to 48 in.) seams make mechanization impractical. A third reason: rail costs from the heart of the Appalachian soft coal field have soared...
...Smathers act is just a start in the railroads' battle for relief from overregulation and "discriminatory" taxes. He has asked for the creation of a Secretary of Transportation, suggested Government purchase of new rolling stock that would be rented to the roads. He believes that the long-haul rail passenger is a vanishing breed (Pennsy's 1958 passenger deficit: $44 million) and that the only way to save commuter service is to have communities pay the losses. The Pennsy and Philadelphia are now trying such an experiment. Many western railroadmen disagree with Symes's plan for subsidy...
Though initial transportation costs are often much higher than rail or truck, the savings in time, warehousing, handling, inventory and other costs more than make up the difference in many cases. American turned Armour & Co.'s pharmaceutical division into a regular customer by showing it how to reduce costs $100,000 annually by shipping drugs air freight to a five-state area. For many of the same reasons, Burroughs Corp. has started shipping computers by air and figured a $245.43 net gain on shipping a 1,640-lb. computer from Detroit to Los Angeles...