Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chugging toward the same sort of triumph enjoyed by the children's little engine. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has in effect recommended that it take over all freight service in the state from both the bankrupt Penn Central and the Federal Government's planned rail corporation, reversing the trend toward public absorption of private rail service. In addition, Massachusetts officials are talking to executives of the line about extending its operations into that state...
...loss of $182,297 for the same period last year, which was its first complete quarter in operation. In the deficit-ridden world of Northeastern railroading, that performance has been enough to attract the favorable attention of state governments. All of which goes to prove, perhaps, that rail unions are not always obstructionist, and that private management has a future even in Northeastern railroading. The sort of naive triumph enjoyed by the Little Blue Engine when it rescued the happy train sometimes approaches reality...
...idle moment on the Today show, Critic Gene Shalit said he would like to be a conductor. Immediately, the Long Island Rail Road offered him a job. Then the Orchestral Society of Westchester came up with something better: it asked Shalit to lead a concert last week in the garden of Lyndhurst, Financier Jay Gould's old estate on the Hudson River. Shalit, an amateur bassoonist, accepted with pleasure. As a child, he had taken piano lessons: "You know the kind of thing, the music teacher kisses your Fingers to see if you're a genius." Waving...
...would mean a certain end to the virtual carte blanche that Rhodesian security forces now enjoy to go guerrilla hunting in the Mozambican bush. More important, a new government in the territory's capital, Lourenço Marques, might well refuse to transport Rhodesian goods by road and rail to Indian Ocean ports-meaning economic disaster...
Though the government claimed that no more than 8% of the work force responded to Fernandes' call, militiamen had to be mobilized to man emergency rail services. In Bombay, at least, the strike appeared far more effective than the government claimed. The 1,278 suburban trains that normally carry almost 3 million passengers daily were idle, keeping almost 50% of the city's workers away from their jobs. In many areas, even where minimal train service has been maintained, food prices have jumped 40% to 50% as housewives hoarded such staples as rice and cooking oil in fear...