Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line. Cities in the great Midwest of the U.S. will become ocean-going ports. Chicago will be linked to Calcutta, Duluth to Antwerp, Toronto to Brisbane. Detroit's Chrysler Corp. will be able to ship a Plymouth sedan to Oslo for $45 less than the cost of the rail-ocean haul through New York. Wheat will move from Fort William, Ont. to Rotterdam at a saving...
...best all-round harness man of them all was not driving. Balding, twinkly Del Miller was sweating out a 15-day suspension, imposed by the stewards for his driving in an earlier Roosevelt race. Miller had pulled back at the halfway mark, presumably to find a hole along the rail. There was no hole. He came in last, was promptly set down for driving "in a manner inconsistent with an attempt...
...Jersey, nine eastern rail lines, including the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, urged Governor Robert Meyner to postpone their $18.5 million tax bill for 1958 to ease their "insurmountable burdens...
...House passed (348-2) and sent to the Senate a bill to give sick railroaders another couple of pep pills by 1) providing Federal Government guarantees for private loans to rail companies for maintenance and improvement, and 2) letting the ICC, rather than state boards, pass on discontinuance of money-losing services, such as commuter trains that run nearly empty...
...Away at Hollywood Park with his old, slashing style. A quarter-mile from the wire the filly began to lug in. Westrope stood up in the stirrups and walloped her on the head to keep her from bolting off the track. Nothing worked. His mount threw him onto the rail, and he died of multiple fractures and internal injuries soon after he reached the hospital...