Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system of regulations that South Africans call "petty apartheid" is slowly flaking away. Park benches are now integrated in most cities, and elevator apartheid has almost disappeared; interracial sports are permitted on a limited basis. Blacks are moving into jobs formerly reserved for whites (computer technicians, bank tellers, railroad switchmen), but equal pay for equal work is still a rarity. The average white salary remains twelve times the average black one, and the government spends 17 times as much to educate a white child as a black one. The government has made a few business concessions to coloreds and Asians...
...minds of downtrodden U.S. commuters and rail travelers, the very mention of Japan conjures up visions of superfast trains and a superefficient railroad system. To a degree, the image is justified. The futuristic Shinkansen, or "bullet" trains, whisk passengers as far as 735 miles from Tokyo to Fukuoka City in the southernmost main island of Kyushu in six hours flat amid plush comfort. That trip costs only $31.15 for a one-way economy-class ticket with a $20.70 surcharge for first-class...
...Sometimes we go down to the railroad tracks to find spikes," one volunteered. The children said that their parents had placed no restrictions on their play outside in recent weeks, but when one mother spied her son talking to a reporter, she called him over and ordered him not to answer any questions
...circ. 204,747) loaded its presses onto a railroad car in 1862, and then gave the advancing Yankees hell from all over the South. The hell-raising persists, but the enemy has changed. The paper's 1975 expose of racial discrimination in local apartment complexes led to one of the largest cash settlements in the history of open-housing litigation. This year the Commercial Appeal revealed how Memphis' biggest department store was spying on customers in its dressing rooms, and endorsed a black candidate with a white wife over 15 white opponents for the office of county legislator...
...question of whom it should sell to played an important part in Abercrombie's genesis. David T. Abercrombie made camping goods in a small factory in Lower Manhattan and was content to sell to trappers, railroad surveyors, prospectors and others who worked out of doors. Then, in 1892, he met Ezra Fitch, a successful but bored lawyer. They became partners and built a store on Broadway where Fitch set out to sell Abercrombie's goods to the public in general and fat-cat sportsmen in particular. After many disagreements over just whom the store should be catering...