Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reflector 250 ft. in diameter, surfaced with accurately curved steel plates and weighing 750 tons. Supported by two towers 185 ft. high, it pivots 360° on massive racks taken from turrets of dismantled battleships. The towers stand on twelve four-wheeled trucks that turn around a circle of railroad track. The combined motions of pivoting and turning allow the great reflector to point to any part...
...defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build a decent house? The truth is that an enormously creative and progressive era produced an enormously creative and progressive architecture...
...biggest oil-production cut in Texas history, the Texas Railroad Commission last week slashed allowable output for July to 13 days, a drop of 384,631 bbl. a day. The state's independent producers seized on the record cut as an opportunity to dramatize the plight of the domestic oil industry, hard pressed by record imports from abroad and steadily mounting crude oil stocks. Four associations of independents fired off telegrams to Washington blaming the production cut on imports, warning that foreign oil is replacing domestic...
...William Thomas Rice, 45, will move up from president of the small (109-mile) Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad to become president and chief executive of the big (5,287-mile) Atlantic Coast Line, succeeding Champion McDowell Davis, 77, who is retiring as one of the industry's senior executives after 64 years of service. A railroader ever since he won his B.S. degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1934, President Rice got his start as a $155-a-month assistant engineer on the Pennsylvania, moved up to track superintendent by 1942, when he was called to active duty...
...immensity of this wealth is overshadowed only by the difficulty of tapping it. To bring the iron ore to port, France would have to spend $435 million to build 780 miles of desert railroad, a new Atlantic harbor. The coal transportation problem is equally...