Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Germany agreed to deliver $822 million in goods and services to Israel over a twelve-year period; and individual indemnifications to Nazi victims may total $1.5 billion. No one argues that this is payment in full. But Jewish organizations agree that "the shame factor" is widespread. "The local railroad-ticket seller," said one embarrassed young man in Bonn last week, "knows I am a Jew and fairly leaps to take care of me first when I'm standing in line. I guess he was a guard in a concentration camp once...
Free to Choose? On June 15, 1955 Judge Reynolds gave the Ellises 48 hours to surrender Hildy. Frances Ellis took Hildy and went to Tuckahoe, N.Y., the first of several stops on an underground railroad manned by friends and relatives. Her husband followed. Together they moved to Levittown, Pa. (then left after Hildy was mentioned in a newspaper as a birthday-party guest), White Plains, N.Y., New York City, Thompsonville, Conn., Scarsdale, N.Y., and Portland...
SPEEDY "DAN'L WEBSTER," New Haven Railroad's $1,500,000 new light train, which broke down on a trial run (TIME, Jan. 21), is back on the tracks, will make three one-way trips daily between New York and Boston...
Despite Office of Defense Mobilization advice that Europe cannot yet depend on Middle Eastern oil, the Texas Railroad Commission last week sharply cut daily Texas output by 224,710 bbl. to 3,564.665 bbl. The commission, which had reluctantly boosted production a month ago, acted on reports of a surplus in U.S. crude that could cut domestic prices all down the line. In addition to an estimate from the Bureau of Mines that daily U.S. demand for April will decrease 425,000 bbl., the commission heard testimony from major refiners that oil lifters (shippers in the emergency oil lift) cannot...
...Commuter Cycle. A mile-a-minute bike was brought out by Bianchi, Italy's oldest bikemaker, who hopes to sell it to commuters in the U.S. to ride to the railroad station. Bianchi's new "World Champion" has ten gears operated by a hand shift, weighs only 23 lbs. (v. an average 47 lbs. for standard U.S. bikes) and has hit 60 m.p.h. ridden by Italian bike-racing Champion Fausto Coppi. Ordinary pedal pushers, says Bianchi, can do 50 m.p.h. without trouble. Price in Italy: $75. Price in U.S.: about...