Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Troyer is only one of thousands of farmers and elevator owners caught in the great rail tie-up of 1973. In Illinois alone, the state's agriculture department estimates, farmers have had 300 million bushels of last year's grain harvest ready for shipment for months, but cannot move it to market. There is a demand for some 12,000 grain rail cars, but only 5,000 are currently available...
...than any other candidate, Bradley has campaigned on the issues. By "down zoning" and developing a long-range growth plan, he hopes to limit the city's population to 4,000,000 (it is now approaching 3,000,000). He calls for the building of a rapid-transit rail system, free public transportation for people over 65, and the appointment of a city ombudsman to help cut bureaucratic red tape. Yorty is content with merely echoing that Los Angeles is the greatest, and that he is the man to keep it going and growing the way it has been...
NADYM, a gas field discovered four years ago, contains 6 trillion cubic meters of gas, equivalent to three-quarters of U.S. reserves. A river port, rail spur and 600-mile gas line have been carved out of the desolate tundra, and by 1978 gas will be sent to West Europe. Three American companies are considering building a $7 billion pipeline 2,000 miles to Murmansk for shipment of liquefied gas to the U.S. East Coast...
...Interstate Commerce Commission proposed $150 million to $200 million a year in stopgap aid and imposition of a 1% tax on all rail, truck or barge freight movements in the country, with the aim of raising another $400 million a year to keep the Northeast railroads running. The next day President Nixon's new Secretary of Transportation, Claude S. Brinegar, rejected the idea of a federal bail-out and proposed instead a kind of freight version of Amtrak, the quasi-Government corporation that runs long-distance passenger trains (TIME, March 26). Brinegar would create one or more corporations, with...
...longer carries enough freight to keep all the lines alive. On the other hand, Brinegar's belief that no federal money will be needed is almost surely wishful thinking. "There is no way for a bankrupt railroad to raise money other than through a federal subsidy," says one rail executive. "Even if we streamline our plant, we must still rebuild our tracks and yards and get new rolling stock." Much money will also be needed for severance pay to the union workers who would have to be cut from payrolls in any paring down to a core system...