Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steep, truck-clogged grade in California's Sierra Nevada moun tains, the Southern Pacific Railroad recently erected a sign: "Take the trucks off the highway. Put the trucks on piggyback." The railroad's sign symbolized a growing problem for the U.S. trucking industry. Piggybacking, which was originally envisioned as a happy marriage between trucks and railroads, has zoomed 180% (to some 210,000 carloadings annually) since 1954, and the outlook is for a $1 billion business by 1965. But so far, railroads have puffed off with most of the profits. Of 39 roads offering some form of piggyback...
...Many railroads are frank to admit that they are out to dominate piggybacking, argue that it is a matter of economic necessity. From 1939 to 1954, the railroads' share of intercity freight slumped from 63% to less than 50%, while the truckers' share jumped from 10% to 19%. Now, with the help of piggybacking, the roads hope to win back lost ground. Last year truck business slipped to 17.7%, while railroads just about held their own. Says Southern Pacific's Assistant General Freight Agent Ray F. Robinson: "Ninetynine percent of our piggyback business is business we never...
...shivering, confused and fearful refugees from Hungary. Researchers Eleanor Johnson and Deirdre Mead Ryan, who covered the arrival of the refugees at Camp Kilmer (see "The Huddled Masses" in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), found them still too bewildered to talk readily. On the way to the camp from the New Brunswick railroad station, Researcher Johnson learned that her taxi driver was a native Hungarian. He taught her a few Hungarian words and phrases, and as soon as she tried them out on the refugees their reticence broke down immediately...
With such a relatively efficient Post Office handling the mails one naturally wonders why many letters from New York and environs take two days to arrive at their College destination. At this point, one must widen his field of observation, and consider the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. This strange utility is responsible for delivering the mail each day from New York to Boston on the late night train, but, according to the Superintendent in the central Cambridge Post Office, that train is as often late as it is on time, with degree of lateness varying from...
FIRST AFRICAN ALUMINUM source will be developed by Canada's Aluminium Ltd. at cost of $100 million for plants, mines, railroad, port facilities. World's second-biggest aluminum producer (first: Alcoa) will exploit bauxite mines in wilds of French. Guinea, begin reducing bauxite to alumina...