Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saboteurs were at work the length of the sugar-rich island. Buses were set on fire, power and telephone lines cut, store windows smashed, cars bombed, bridges burned. A train was derailed, and a railroad station burned down. In the Guantanamo power station, two bombs went off and plunged the big adjoining U.S. Navy base into darkness...
Strongman Batista conferred at length with his top military and police chiefs on ways to curb the spreading revolutionary fervor. Cops with rifles and machine guns went on guard at railroad stations and public buildings. Planes and warships patrolled the coasts...
...Most railroad spaces are taken, although one can fight the crowds for unreserved coach seats. Several travel plans have been developed to lower rail-road rates by acquiring tickets on a "mass basis," but even these are filled...
RENT-FREE LAND for industry is being offered by Montana's Blackfoot Indians on 1,697-sq.-mi. reservation near railroad, highways with ample electric power. Tribe wants to create employment source for 4,200 Blackfeet, now hard-pressed to make a living on their ancestral grounds...
...trouble, say truckers, is that piggyback's impressive savings may prove their undoing. They fear that while short-run profits may rise, piggybacking leaves the door open for railroads to steal away bigger and bigger chunks of the freight market with their own trailer fleets. Says the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, some of whose members look on piggybacking with a jaundiced eye: "Let's say the ABC trucking company operates a fleet of 1,000 power units and 1,500 trailers from the Midwest to the Eastern seaboard. Then the company decides to use piggyback. It disposes...