Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear power program is mighty ambitious-much too much so, many Frenchmen complain. Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand, who clearly plans to make the atom an issue in next March's elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about a new element in the government's aggressive program...
After the disaster, the victims' bodies were put in rubber bags, removed from the crash site aboard a railroad boxcar and brought back to Evansville. Next morning some 1,500 students crammed into the university chapel for eulogies and prayers. On Sunday fans paid their last respects to the team at a memorial service in Roberts Stadium. The rest of the basketball season has been canceled. Said Junior Rory Hennings, 20, a close friend of four players who died: "I hadn't gotten to see them play this year because I was working the night of the only...
Another prime mover is Taul Watanabe, 57, who was briefly interned during World War II because of his Japanese ancestry but won his release, after petitioning President Roosevelt, to accept a law-school scholarship. Now a vice president of the Burlington Northern Railroad, he persuaded the presidents of six Japanese shipping companies - all of whom he knows - to use Seattle as their U.S. port. That move created 3,100 jobs, $50 million in annual direct benefits for the region and helped make Seattle one of the nation's leading containership ports. Watanabe was among the first to urge Dixy...
...rejiggering of freight rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission to lower the cost of shipping steel by railroad. The aim is to enable steel produced in the Midwest to compete more efficiently with foreign steel, much of which is sold in coastal areas close to ports of entry...
...almost all by governments or organizations whose credit is government-guaranteed. Borrowers include the national governments of Australia, Finland and Norway; the city governments of Oslo and Stockholm; the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Investment Bank; the Japan Development Bank; the state-owned French railroad, telecommunications and electricity networks. Privately owned foreign companies still sell few bonds in the U.S.; they prefer to raise their money in Europe where, for all the disadvantages, there are no tough rules ordering disclosure of secret corporate information to lenders...