Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highway program launched by the Eisenhower administration has vastly expanded the country's highways in a very short period of time. The long belts of concrete which cut across the western states were the most important development in that part of the country since the completion of the transcontinental railroad a century ago. The highway system was such a universally praised program that its supporters began to think of it as the answer to almost all the nation's ills...
...brightly lit and gilded plastic. It is not a proper home for trains. The dispatcher sits in a glass booth suspended over the main hall. You know that he served his apprenticeship in an airport form the way he issues commands, as if it is all a game of Railroad, in which the people below are his playing pieces. If the Secretary of Transportation ever institutes high-speed train service on the East Coast, he will employ men like this Penn Dispatcher. The result will be an airline on wheels...
...thin to form teardrops. And I was tried. As we pulled into 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, I knew I shouldn't leave the train. Perhaps, if I stayed on, if the train continued, perhaps I would discover the power and energy which America once invested in its railroad. I got off, though, even though I knew the station would look square and dark, a mausoleum. For in a few days I had to return to Boston. By plane...
...fears that we had last spring was that the program might easily become another underground railroad for talented black youths to "escape" the South. This was why the program was designed as an exchange--western students coming South to college, and southern students going West to college. To try to encourage some of last year's students to return to their communities to contribute their skills to the development of that community, we are now trying to recruit as many of last year's students as possible to work with FOCUS in their communities. The program could be no more...
Boomtown, U.S.A. The trouble is that the citizenry has long lived in the -vicinity of vice. In the roaring '20s, with thousands at work in the surrounding coal mines and thousands more employed in the railroad yards, there was no shortage of customers for the brothels and horse rooms. The city's gamy reputation drew rakehells from as far north as Chicago, 156 miles away. Oldtimers recall the days when not a single house was a home in the six-block Tenderloin along the Wabash River...