Word: railings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louis Station. The most challenging venture now on the company's boards, this will entail redevelopment of an abandoned railroad passenger terminal and 56 acres of rail yard six blocks from the fringes of downtown St. Louis; it will include a hotel and offices as well as stores and restaurants...
...When rail unions struck that same year, Roosevelt put the War Department in charge of the railroads. Harry Truman similarly ordered strike-bound coal mines seized in 1946, railroads in 1950 and steel mills in 1952. Richard Nixon in 1970 sent military troops into post offices where federal employees had illegally left their jobs. Still, taking on the controllers was not quite as difficult as facing down coal, steel, railroad and postal workers?who have far more members and political clout than doesPATCO...
Though most West Coast fruit and vegetables are shipped East for sale either by truck or refrigerated rail car, some perishables, like plant-ripened strawberries, must be moved by plane. Last week California growers were shipping 400,000 lbs. of the fruit daily by air with no difficulty. Says Herbert Baum, president of Naturipe Berry Growers Inc., one of the state's largest agricultural cooperatives: "We had expected serious problems, but so far we have not been affected. We are quite surprised...
...contrast, the week-old walkout has already proved to be a bonanza for a few lucky businesses. In New England, passenger volume for Trailways jumped 40%. In the Midwest, business for Greyhound was up 55% on some routes, particularly in the Chicago and Indianapolis areas. The troubled Amtrak rail network enjoyed a 5% to 10% bookings spurt. On Amtrak's Metroliner service between New York City and Boston, passenger traffic climbed...
While the Welly is hurled and the tots take the vows, Charles and Diana should have departed the palace breakfast and started, via British Rail, on the first stage of their honeymoon. They will spend their first two days as husband and wife at Broadlands, once the home of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Ahead, after their two-week Mediterranean cruise aboard the Britannia, lie the more serious duties of government and the more exacting chores of their official life together...