Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry have we had a time when so much faulty merchandise was being received," says Al Bernsohn, vice president of the 5,000-member National Appliance and Radio-TV Dealers Association. In a recent sampling, 70% of the members polled reported an increase in broken appliances from the factory. Railroad-salvage salesmen bucked them on to cut-rate retailers, and the discounters in turn passed them on to the public, leaving the independent repairman to handle any troubles...
Odds Don't Even. In Nashville, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. gave its reason for proposing to discontinue two passenger runs: "The crew often outnumbers the passengers...
...time is the near future; the place, the U.S.; the heroine, beautiful Dagny Taggart, a stainless-steel executive who runs a transcontinental railroad with the same chilling efficiency she displays in bed with various deserving tycoons. But dauntless Dagny is having troubles. Her railroad keeps breaking down. The best businessmen begin to vanish mysteriously. Oilfields flame in the night, copper mines are destroyed, docks blow skyhigh, steel mills collapse in chaos. Finally Dagny catches on: her fellow capitalists have gone on strike...
...west. It is a pleasant, leisurely place of well-tended homes and green lawns where violets and jonquils bloom in spring, chrysanthemums in autumn. It is a diversified light-industry city that makes its living above all from nonnative enterprises-the Arkansas state government; the Missouri Pacific Railroad repair yards in North Little Rock; the nearby Little Rock Air Force Base (biggest employer)-and as such, before the crisis, had no one thing to demand its attention. General Douglas MacArthur is from Little Rock, so are fictional Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ("I'm Just a Little Girl...
PULLMAN SLUMP caused by airplane competition will force Pennsylvania Railroad to halt coast-to-coast through-sleeper service, make transcontinental passengers go back to switching trains in Chicago. Each through sleeper needs 15 passengers to break even, has recently averaged only nine...