Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Gerald Ford sign an $11.8 billion mass-transportation bill. The money, which will be distributed to cities and states over the next six years, is the largest federal subsidy ever approved for mass transit and the first to include funds for the day-to-day operations of urban rail, bus and subway systems...
lavishes on concretizing the countryside for unsafe, gas-voracious automobiles, the nation could rebuild its rail road beds and develop the nonpolluting trains that successfully operate in other coun tries. As it is, this Super-Chief of a book points out with some justice...
...example, the argument that the Japanese can undercut the American producers with cheap labor is a disturbing echo of the British textile merchants' complaint about the "imitative" Germans. (In both cases modern and productive equipment actually made the difference.) As the British rail and textile industries matured, they searched into the past for the reasons for their success. Instead of recognizing their former readiness to innovate and courage to take risks, they picked up on antiquated management policies and clung to them desperately. The result, of course, was to hasten collapse. The same thing is happening in the auto industry...
Next the miners descend in an elevator to the mine, far below the surface. There they file into a tiny rail car for the ride to the mine face, the wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat...
...night it became a smuggler's paradise: signal lamps flickered, whistles sounded and high-power motorboats, guided by shadowy figures with walkie-talkies, roared in from the sea. When they touched shore, a human conveyor belt hustled the contraband out of the boats and into waiting trucks or rail cars...