Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million in passenger service since 1946, largely because a "chaos of regulation" by both Federal Government and states prevents the road from raising rates or cutting out little-used and unprofitable routes. To dramatize his point, Perlman reported that a three-year-old request by the Central to cut rail and ferry service across the Hudson River into Manhattan is still pending, despite the fact that the railroad has lost $3,000,000 a year on the line during the period, "enough to provide a Chevrolet for each of the less than 4,000 commuters using the service." Perlman asked...
...week's end the railroadmen had made a strong case for some sort of legislative relief to help their ailing roads. In expectation of getting it, investors took a more optimistic view of rail stocks, which have been dropping for more than a year and a half. They surged up on the New York Stock Exchange, ended the week up 6.94 on the Dow-Jones rail average...
...time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East Berlin, Prague, Sofia and distant cities within the U.S.S.R., cuts the eight-day Moscow-to-Peking rail trip to just nine hours...
...Algerian rebels were equally intent on proving that the Sahara's oil would never be secure so long as France refused Algeria independence. As the first shipment was being pumped aboard the silver tank cars at Touggourt, rebels blew up a section of the rail line to the coast, derailed 20 cars of a freight train in a psychological shock of their own. But the tracks were hastily repaired, the armed guard increased, and by week's end the first oil safely reached Philippeville for loading aboard a ship bound for France. In a few years, predicted...
...tangle of U.S. urbanization, railroads are the most efficient method for moving commuters. But bigger fare increases alone are no real solution; they cause more commuters to use their own cars. Into Manhattan every day last year, some 18,000 more New Jersey commuters came by car than by rail. To move the bumper-to-bumper traffic, New York and other big cities are spending billions on highways and off-street parking sites-thus encouraging even more car commuters...