Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers demand a 40% wage increase. Last week 45,000 workers halted trains for about twelve hours on Southern Pacific, Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio railroads. The men returned to work under a court injunction, and late in the week President Nixon signed an executive order delaying any national rail strike for 60 days...
...Rail. Nixon argued that such Democrats are "decent people," concerned about promiscuity, crime, pornography, drugs, riots, desecration of the flag. Many are Catholics. He recalled entertaining 90 labor leaders and their wives at the White House on Labor Day. "If someone had called a Mass," he said, "80% of them would have gone to the rail." The way to reach people like these, he added, is to take a hard line on social issues and to paint the Democratic Party as "the party of permissiveness." The Democrats are "way out on the left," he observed. "Keep them there." The main...
...engines or even rocket motors. But both Japanese and American designers favor linear induction motors. These are similar to conventional electric motors, but they have, in effect, been flattened out. Part of the undercarriage of the train acts as the motor's fixed coils, while a vertical guide rail in the center of the pathway takes the place of its spinning rotor. When enough electrical power is fed into the system, the train begins to move forward. Like an airplane, the train needs old-fashioned wheels for low-speed travel until it reaches "liftoff" at about 50 m.p.h...
...second longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.* Since the west side is closed to foot traffic, he walks along the bridge's east flank, ignoring a magnificent view of the city. Having reached the center span, he climbs without hesitation over the waist-high guard rail and-again without hesitation-jumps. Even if he hits feet first after a 250-ft. descent, the impact velocity of about 85 m.p.h. is likely to drive both legs up into his body, shattering his pelvis. Shocked and immobilized, he soon drowns in the numbing waters...
...Marin County, 391 people have leaped from it to their deaths. (Five others, all in their resilient youth, survived to tell about it.) The figure does not include another 129 recorded by the California Highway Patrol as "possibles" based on circumstantial evidence -a pile of clothing left by the rail, a farewell message left behind, an abandoned car. But even the official toll, says Dr. Richard H. Seiden, associate professor of behavioral sciences at Berkeley, qualifies the bridge as "the No. 1 location for death by suicide in the entire Western world"-a fitting distinction for San Francisco, whose suicide...