Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...root of the trouble is the acute, continent-wide shortage of railroad freight cars. Lately there have been many more Canadian boxcars lagging in the U.S., awaiting return, than U.S. boxcars in Canada. But in gondolas, the open-top cars that at this season bring in Canada's winter coal supply, Canada currently owes the U.S. railroads about 14,800 cars...
Throughout Mexico trains ground to a halt. Railroad men had stopped work to pay tribute to Simón Bolívar, the Liberator...
Hungry Steel. After their hungry cry for another rate boost (TIME, July 14), some of the railroads turned out to be pretty well fed. Union Pacific's six months' earnings, at $20,601,834, were 51% above the 1946 period; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's, $20,609,310, were up 57%. Some 25 roads did much better than last year-a poor year-including the New York Central Railroad Co., which made $2,053,711 v. a 1946 loss...
...Clare Street in the little Welsh town of Merthyr, an old man sits before a glowing fireplace. Aberdare Mountain rises just opposite the front porch and the River Taff flows by the back garden. At 79, old Jim Horner, sometime foremen at the Merthyr railroad station, is as clear of speech and keen of wit as ever. He is also as stoutly devoted as ever to his son Arthur, old Jim's pride and pain. Arthur has gone far since his childhood in Merthyr. Today he holds the fate of the nation in his clenched fists...
...Russian zone, a man receives a notice to report at the railroad station within 48 hours; he knows he will be sent to work in the uranium mines near Chemnitz.* He packs a knapsack and is heard from no more...