Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past 18 months, federal planners have been wrestling with the problem of how to make the bankrupt Northeastern rail system once more efficient and profitable. In February, the U.S. Railway Association-a Government cure seeker created by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act-issued its preliminary plan for a Government-backed corporation that would consolidate about 15,000 miles of the old Penn Central and half a dozen other bankrupt lines. That plan was much criticized by politicians; New York Governor Hugh Carey called it "utterly unacceptable...
Last week the rail planners tried again. They submitted a revised "final plan" to Congress that becomes effective automatically in 60 working days unless lawmakers derail it. That is not likely. Conrail already has the support of rail management and unions, as well as backing from such big shippers as General Motors and Bethlehem Steel. Some Congressmen are still opposed because rail lines in their districts will be dropped. But opposition generally is poorly organized, and Conrail is expected to begin operations on schedule next February...
...comes out in the play. Hunter clearly has an unimpeachable knowledge of the man's writing, and any argument would be a pedantic waste of time. But whoever Hemingway was he was human, and to demystify the hallowed name of a great author must be to do more than rail furiously against fame and toss about death-wish forebodings to prove the point. This only makes it look like the playwright himself is mystified and awed, while the audience is mystified and bored...
...Suddenly they start to diet and then simply stop eating, sometimes losing 50 lbs. or so in a few months. Some, like Susan, now 21, seek treatment and manage to get back to a normal weight. Others, with or without treatment, may start eating enough to survive, yet remain rail-thin and undernourished. Still, 5% to 15% of known victims of anorexia nervosa have starved to death despite treatment...
Crumbling rail service also adds to food costs. In the 1950s a carload of Bartlett pears loaded in Sacramento reached New York in 6½ days; today the journey often takes from nine to eleven days. Another cost fattener: Federal Trade Commission rules on discounting, required by the Robinson-Patman Act, involve so much red tape that they discourage wholesalers from giving price breaks to supermarkets that place large orders. The aim is to help protect small stores, which account for two-thirds of the nation's 200,000 grocery outlets, from price competition...