Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Going out of the classroom Elkins (the Society man) and myself moved on O'Neill. His diffidence seemed to have gone. We repaired to one of the Shamrock bars... We drank ale. We continued drinking ale until four in the morning, feet on the rail, one hand in the free lunch. It was just one of those nights. Ribald tales, anecdotes of experience, theorizing about the drama--what collegians used to call a `bull session.' A bull session de luxe...
Thus Red China last week celebrated completion of the first permanent bridge ever laid across the treacherous, tortuous Yangtze River, a mile-long double-deck structure with six-lane highway and double-track railway. For the first time it would be possible to go directly by rail from Hong Kong to Paris...
COMMUTER SUBSIDY for money-losing rail and bus lines is getting a push in high places. New England Governors' Committee on Public Transportation urges municipal and state governments to subsidize commuter business to cover losses, warns "this remedy seems necessary if commuter services are to be maintained...
...Steel Community at Luxembourg to withhold approval of the Ruhr coal-price hike. To back up the appeal, Erhard wheeled up his biggest price-defense weapon-his power to let more competing imports into the country. As a starter, he ordered his ministry to prepare schemes to slash rail freights on foreign oil and U.S. coal. At week's end the coalmen were still holding their prices up, and Erhard was stubbornly getting ready to fire the gun of low-priced imports that always in the past has knocked them down. Nobody was betting that it would...
...Wall Street last week-and it went with a whistle. In five days of heavy trading, stocks on the New York Stock Exchange lost $8.7 billion of their value. Thursday was the worst. As 3,300,000 shares changed hands, the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted 9.69 points, the rail average 4.59 points in the sharpest break since Oct. 10. 1955, the week after President Eisenhower's heart attack. Though a strong surge on Friday checked the losses, the attrition left the market average at 441.16, nearly 80 points below the alltime high set in April 1956 and almost...