Word: rails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield, where he lost by a length and a half to rail-clinging Setarah 11 (owned by Socialist ex-Bandleader Jack Hylton), Colonist swung too far to the right...
...Since the railway unions called out their workers three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 19), both sides had steadfastly refused to yield an inch. During that time, MoPac had lost more than $12 million in revenue. Most of its customers were being taken care of by trucks, buses and competing rail lines. But in Arkansas, 55 factories employing almost 3,500 persons were closed because of the MoPac shutdown; farmers in the Kansas City area reported heavy losses because of lack of transportation for their livestock. Confronted with the certainty of such distress, the MoPac strikers had refused to work through...
Last week, MoPac officials went all out: they proposed that the dispute be submitted to a panel of referees. MoPac would abide by the decisions of the panel, but the rail unions would not have to. There was only one condition to the offer: call off the strike at once...
...Rockies bar Alberta oil from British Columbia; rail rates are too high, and the demand for oil does not justify the high cost of building a pipeline across the mountains. Similarly, the high cost of transport tends to bar Alberta oil from the Ontario and Quebec industrial areas, which are supplied by pipelines from the U.S. and tankers from the Caribbean and the Middle East. Thus the fields' natural market is the oil-hungry U.S. Midwest, which can be reached easily from Alberta...
...Stone Unturned. In Zanesville, Ohio, when Patrolman Dick Tracy set out to check on the story of a motorist who had driven through a guard rail, down a 20-ft. slope and into a stream, Tracy's brakes failed and he ended up in the same stream...