Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that McGinnis has resigned from the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, is it possible that the ravaged commuters . . . will write finis to McGinnis...
...rioting that began in Bombay (TIME, Jan. 30) spread right across India. Mobs squatted on railroad tracks to halt trains, crowded onto airfields to prevent planes from landing, blocked roads with trees, broke into jails and freed convicts, looted stores, ripped down telephone wires. Newspapers that had given Nehru steady support were charging the government with "moral bankruptcy." The prestige of the Congress Party had never been lower...
Part of the continuing steel demand came from U.S. railroads, which are expanding as never before to meet new markets. The Association of American Railroads estimated that overall profits for 1955 may hit $915 million for Class I roads, the best year on record. The New York Central, Union Pacific and Santa Fe are all reaping the benefits of new equipment and expanding business along their tracks; Central profits of $52 million were 400% higher than 1954. For the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, increasing dieselization, new maintenance shops, heavier coal and steel shipments added up to the best year...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS on 21 types of defense projects will be reinstated by the Office of Defense Mobilization. Among the expansion goals reinstated: airport facilities, iron ore, diesel locomotives, truck terminals, railroad passenger cars, petroleum pipelines...
...level, nine-man citizens' committee that put together the report was New Mexico Publisher (the Santa Fe New Mexican) Robert M. Mc-Kinney, 45, who was tapped for the job because of his longtime friendship with Senator Clinton Anderson, Joint Committee chairman. A corporation director (Rock Island Railroad, International Telephone & Telegraph) and cattle breeder (Aberdeen Angus) but no scientist, Bob McKinney set his task forces to work ten months ago, organized 15 discussion groups of specialists, launched 50 special studies, interviewed 327 top experts in science, industry, agriculture, medicine...