Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaillard urged a 5% tax boost on "unessential goods," from furs and motorcycles to radios and yachts. He wanted a reduction in state subsidies, which would probably result in a 10% rise in rail and subway fares and gas bills. And he demanded a 600 billion-franc ($1.7 billion) slash in government spending. "These measures may look severe to you," concluded Gaillard, "but they are barely sufficient." Even with these measures Gaillard was budgeting for a $2.3 billion deficit this year...
...wedding day, Jafar arranged for her to catch a glimpse of Nuri from a window a few weeks beforehand. "He was handsome -just as he is today," says Naima, who has borne him two sons (one of them, an R.A.F.-trained pilot, is chief of Iraq's rail system and airlines...
...biggest restaurants last week. Price of the meal: 97?. Owner of the restaurant: Socony Mobil Oil Co., which installed a cafeteria and seven dining rooms in its Manhattan headquarters to give 2,400 employees bargain food at a sizable loss to itself every month. Operated by the Brass Rail Restaurant (on a cost-plus fee basis), the dining rooms are graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music, and are pleasantly decorated (some in rosewood paneling, one with a pigskin leather floor...
...year Turkish industrial buildup on 50-50 basis with Turkish government. Krupp has drafted deal with government to 1) boost output of Krupp-built iron works at Karabuk from 400,000 tons to 750,000 tons a year; 2) supply some building equipment, material for $80 million Turkish rail-highway improvement plan; 3) build plants in which Turkey will make ammunition for new West German army...
...RAIL-FARE HIKE will send up first-class tickets by 15% on six eastern lines. Together with recent 5% raise, this makes total 20% boost approved by ICC in 1957, brings per-mile first-class rates...