Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks run past auto salvagers, truck-winch manufacturers, scrap-metal piles...
...abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...
When the Federal Government combined the bankrupt Penn Central railroad with five other failed lines to form the Consolidated Rail Corp. or Conrail in 1976, some experts predicted that the new enterprise would be a financial sinkhole. Sure enough, over the next six years Conrail cost the Government about $7 billion. But against heavy odds, Conrail has become profitable. It earned $39.2 million in 1981 and $174.2 million in 1982 on revenues of $3.6 billion. Last week the U.S. Railway Association, a Government agency that oversees Conrail's operations, reported to Congress that the rescue operation has been...
...West German students to study public policy. The program was named after John J. McCloy, high commissioner to Germany and assistant secretary of war during World War II. The announcement sparked protests from Jewish and Asian students, who faulted McCloy for overseeing Japanese internment, derailing plans to bomb the railroad to the Auschwitz concentration camps during the war and commuting the sentences of several Nazi leaders after...
...years Rev had been one of the janitors at the county courthouse up in Way land. He had been let go after the accident, which had incapacitated him for some months ... For reasons of pride, and to justify his carrying the pistol, Rev let the family think him a railroad dick. He did live in Hamburg, in a fleabag hotel near the railroad yard, but whenever he wasn't down in Millville at, formerly, his cousin's store and now the Bullard house, he was in the public library, doing research into various subjects that interested...