Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary Laird warned that any Russian attempts to deliver cargo by air rather than by sea also would be stopped "by all necessary means." The U.S. promptly unleashed the most intense air interdiction drive of the war. Bombers struck targets within Haiphong and Hanoi and ranged northward to hit rail lines leading to China...
...mines came the bombs and the shells. Offshore, the cruisers Newport News, Oklahoma City and Providence turned their guns on a petroleum tank near Haiphong. In the sky, flights of 150 to 175 warplanes, including big B-52 bombers, began a systematic pounding of bridges, barracks, trucks, barges, rail junctions and other military targets in North Viet Nam's Red River Valley heartland. Some of the raids struck within 60 miles of the Chinese border. Daily, sometimes almost hourly, loudspeakers on Hanoi's streets screeched instructions: "Take to your shelters. The enemy is near...
That seems a minimum program to give the railroads a chance to pull out of their difficulties. It certainly will not solve all the problems: railroad management must learn more modern ways, and the Government must get tougher with rail unions that insist on featherbedding forever...
...technology exists to build a modern rail network. The Santa Fe now boasts a $12 million automated yard in Kansas City that can handle switching for 3,000 cars a day with only three men to uncouple them. It is technically feasible to run trains with no crewmen except an engineer to blow a warning whistle in dangerous situations. At present, though, these developments only make more painful the contrast between the advanced rail system that the U.S. could have and the dilapidated one that exists...
...times in his spectacular career; on each occasion there were extenuating circumstances. His first time out he raced without blinkers; the second time he lost, he cast a shoe; the last time, when he ran fourth in the Everglades Stakes a few weeks ago, he was bumped into the rail and got a disappointing ride from Jockey Ron Turcotte...