Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert, where no man can hide from the hovering helicopter, there is no trouble from the rebel fellagha, but the wild Atlas Mountains, which bar all routes northward from the oilfield, shelter some of the toughest Moslem rebel gangs. On the final 150-mile stretch of the railroad from Oran there have been continuous attacks by rebels for a year. In one night the line was cut by explosions in 45 places: it must be de-mined every morning before a train can leave. Fortnight ago rebels burned a power station at Laghouat, a vital point on an oilfield road...
...nation out of Canada has in fact been the historic preoccupation of both of Canada's major parties almost to the exclusion of doctrinaire, right-left, capitalism-socialism struggles. Canada's first Prime Minister, Tory John A. Macdonald (1867-73, 1878-91), liberally subsidized the Canadian Pacific Railroad to keep Canada from being served only by north-bound branch lines of U.S. railroads. Liberal C. D. Howe, a devoted private enterpriser, saw nothing strange in fathering a national airline and a national radio-TV network. When Liberals adopted baby bonuses, old-age pensions, a $100 million Canada Council...
EXPORTS TO RED CHINA from Japan are expected to double by 1959. Following lead of Britain, West Germany and other West European nations, Japan lifted strategic embargo on 272 items, including trucks, cars, electric motors, lathes and railroad equipment...
...Next year there will be a Liberty Street, a row of Revolutionary-era shops leading off Independence Hall, and Thomas Edison Square, showing the world as it was before and after the light dawned. Then comes Scienceland, New Orleans Square and a 300-ft. "tunnel" along Disneyland's railroad route that will show three-dimensional views of the Grand Canyon. As a Disney associate says: "By the time Walt gets through, this will not only be the seventh wonder of the world, but the eighth, ninth and tenth as well...
...Color TV. The world's first closed-circuit color-stereo TV system was announced by General Electric. After providing sets for scientists to use in watching radioactive processes, G.E. hopes to develop other markets, such as projecting sales conferences, conducting switching operations in railroad yards and control systems in automated factories...