Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Latin America that if they are ever going to do away with the need for foreign capital, they will have to cooperate more fully with one another. No country knows this better than landlocked, mineral-rich, dollar-starved Bolivia. Last spring, Peru and Bolivia started planning a new railroad to bypass Lake Titicaca, where everything traveling between Peru's Pacific ports and La Paz must now be transshipped to and from a lake steamer. When the ceremonies were over, Paz Estenssoro and Odria signed a formal agreement to go ahead with the 115-mile Puno-Guaqui railroad. Said...
...Rubber expanded 32%, to $19,005,463; American Can went up 10%, to $14,417,672. Western Union about doubled its six months' income, to $6,610,847, as did Pittsburgh Plate Glass, to $32,562,512. Even Pat McGinnis' New Haven Railroad, which has made many enemies among its commuters during 1955's first half, also made money: its six months' net was $5,990,461 (including $1,700,000 in tax adjustments, etc.). compared to $672,420 for the same period last year...
...suddenly directed to the arrival of a flame-red, air-conditioned Buick out of which flounced Mrs. Mary Tulula ("Militant Mary") Cain, a solidly constructed 50-year-old, who edits the weekly Summit Sun. One of seven children of a railway maintenance supervisor, Mary Cain was born in a railroad camp car and has never stopped rolling ("Never seems to get tired," says her husband, a filling-station operator). Mrs. Cain made her opponents' language seem almost tolerant...
Along Lake Huron's rocky northern rim, where the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar...
...make room for a veterans' hospital near Cleveland in 1949, the Veterans Administration bought 14 big houses in a choice suburban section. Among them was the nine-bedroom, three-story home of Alexander Brady, a retired Erie Railroad executive who had paid $12,000 for the house in 1943, sold it to the Government for $31,500. (Since appraised at $67,857.) Brady and neighbors were allowed to rent their homes on a month-to-month basis "until such time as the premises are ... actually needed for purpose for which purchased." Later, the VA changed its mind about building...