Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early in June I traveled with Khariton to the Installation in his personal railroad car. After supper Khariton said, "((KGB chief Yuri)) Andropov called me in. His agents have been finding copies of your essay all over the place -- it's circulating illegally, and it will cause a lot of harm if it gets abroad. Andropov asked me to talk to you. You ought to withdraw it from circulation...
...President Roosevelt who did nothing to increase the immigration quotas, and the State Department that refused to fill even those narrow quotas, and the U.S. Congress that rejected a measure to allow in 20,000 children. And when Jewish leaders pleaded for Allied bombers to knock out the railroad lines to Auschwitz, Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy responded, "I am very chary of getting the army involved in this...
...Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. A treaty outline is being rushed to completion in time for the May 30 summit in Washington. If Bush's proposal makes it into the START agreement, the U.S. will scrap its plan for moving 50 MX missiles, with ten warheads apiece, from silos onto railroad cars, while ! the Soviets will demobilize 20 of their new, mobile SS-24s, each of which also packs a ten-warhead punch. But will the Soviets, who have recently taken a tougher line on START, trade a mobile weapon they already have for one that is still a gleam...
Since the early 1970s, Dickerson, 38, has visited bungalows and trailer camps, tank farms and railroad sidings trying to alert cancer alley's destitute inhabitants about the dangers of the area they live in. "Chemicals aren't racist or prejudiced," she tells her listeners. "Eventually they will move into your community. To fight industry, all you've got to do is get organized...
...once-booming mining and railroad industries of Fayette County are now nearly defunct. The New River Gorge, once dotted with dozens of coal camps, now represents a different source of commerce for the county--white water rafting. And as Fayette Countians will readily tell you, the raft companies, unlike the mines, leave the mountains and rivers intact...