Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budapest one day last week: the Russians were deporting Hungarians. Soviet police had been seen going from house to house arresting young rebels. Now the grapevine reported that at least 180 boxcar loads of Hungarians had been deported in a few days. Notes dropped by young deportees along the railroad tracks had been picked up. One of these, copied and circulated all over Budapest, read: "We are 1,500 and we shall be transported to Russia...
...news incensed Hungary. On this day even the diehard Communists producing the party newspaper Nep Szabadsag went on strike. Even though the Russians had brought railroad workers from Russia to run the trains, the trains were stopped...
...group of rebels raided a railroad station, released 1,000 young students...
...boost U.S. production, the independents insist that the shortage should be filled from existing U.S. supplies above ground, argue that production increases will only result in bigger domestic surpluses once the immediate Suez crisis is past. As of last week, at least, the independents were winning. The Texas Railroad Commission, which controls some 45% of all U.S. production, boosted allowable production barely 75,503 bbls. to 3,442,952 bbls. daily, just 25% of what big oilmen wanted...
...sent its first load of Cerro Bolivar ore down the river. Orinoco Mining has spent $230 million on its Cerro Bolivar mine and the installations that go with it: a trim little company town near the base of the mountain; a river port (Puerto Ordaz); 90 miles of railroad; and iSo miles of Orinoco channel, making it possible for ore ships to steam down the Orinoco to the sea. Cerro Bolivar's 1955 output: more than 6,000,000 tons, i El Pao's: 3,600,000. These two moun-j tains accounted for all of Venezuela...