Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thai-based F-4C Phantoms and F-105 Thunderchiefs averaged 225 missions a week against North Vietnamese targets, which ranged from rail centers (50 strikes) and radar sites (110) to bridges (1,900) and barges (1,850). Helicopter rescue units, which lift downed U.S. airmen from the heart of North Viet Nam, fly out of Nakhon Phanom and two other bases...
...sides, and many were tortured in the best Chinese fashion. Said the Czechs: "Their fingers, noses and ears were chopped off, their tongues cut out." Japan's Kyodo news service reported that 54 persons were killed, 900 wounded and 6,000 arrested and that the city's rail and telephone services were cut. The Great Revolution had clearly begun to devour itself...
...with the sting of official disapproval removed from the act of striking, the regime has not tried to enforce all the law's stipulations. Government mediators have been working furiously since mid-December to try to head off a nationwide rail strike threatened by the National Transportation Syndicate, a supposedly docile trade union controlled by the government. In Barcelona last week, a series of sitdown strikes at the government-owned SEAT auto plant brought a government agreement to study the workers' demands for higher pay. In Bilbao, 750 sheet-metal workers have been on strike since...
...come to be called the Great Northern case. The question before the Justices: whether, and on what terms, to approve the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central into a $6 billion line stretching over 20,000 miles of track that would represent the largest private rail system in the world. By coincidence, the week also marks the fifth anniversary of the occasion on which the Pennsy and the Central formally announced their plans. The fact delaying lengthy legal battles four times since have stalled the merger is an indication of what is backwardly wrong about...
...postal system's worst problems is the obsolescence of its facilities. Few major terminals have been built in the East since World War II. While existing processing centers are often well situated in relation to rail road networks, mail moves increasingly by truck and plane. Automation has swept the industrial world but so far has barely touched the Post Office, where the manual labor of 681,600 employees, now reinforced by 150,000 seasonal workers, still is the prime mover of mail. Opposition from powerful postal unions and from some lethargic officials has slowed innovation...