Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite weekend hideout is his luxurious estate at Melgar. Since he acquired the place, millions of government pesos have gone into improving the highway that links it with Bogota, the nation's capital, and millions more have been allotted for a rail spur from Melgar to the nearest railroad trunk...
Pinches & Prices. Why all the optimism? Part of it was the absence of any real bitterness in the steel strike, even though other industries also started to feel the pinch. The Pennsylvania Railroad, which gets 30% of its revenues from the steel industry, imposed a 10% pay cut on all nonunion employees. Some 90,000 other workers in rail, truck and water transportation industries were laid off. To keep defense plants running, the Government clamped a freeze on certain steel stocks, ordered warehouses to ship them only to defense contractors. Yet it would still be several weeks before any real...
...Northwesterners doubt that the investment will pay rich dividends. Grand Coulee irrigation water has already turned hundreds of square miles of sagebrush desert into lush cropland, boomed Grant County population 67% (to 40,000) in six years. The once-barren hills have sprouted new farming towns and fertilizer plants, railroad yards and huge sugar-beet refineries. When the $200 million Wanapum Dam follows Priest Rapids into production, Grant County citizens will at last have the cheap, abundant power to balance their boom with industry...
...that happen to own them. Otherwise, are caves good for anything? Some have been sources of saltpeter for munitions (Kentucky's Mammoth); others provide guano fertilizer from bat droppings (100,000 tons still lie in New Mexico's Carlsbad), cool storage for beer and cheese, ready-made railroad tunnels (for the Southern Railway in Virginia), chicken pens with below hen-killing summer temperatures, cesspools for at least five Pennsylvania towns, factories for moonshiners and counterfeiters, prisons (Marvel Cave, Mo.), natural air conditioning for surface buildings. Kentucky's Mammoth even served as a TB sanatorium for a time...
...disorderly conduct after she drove away from an accident scene, fled from the police station as she was being booked, was fished out of a drugstore phone booth two blocks away, leaped out of a squad car on the way to the county jail when it stopped at a railroad crossing, lay down on the tracks until three patrolmen got her back in the car, clung to the side of the car at the jail, had to be carried bodily inside by six officers...