Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RAIL-AIR RACE for lead in passenger travel revenue will likely be won by airlines this year for the first time. New ICC figures show air revenue passenger-miles in 1956 went up 12.3% while rails' dropped 1.7%, with airlines reaching 22.3 billion miles v. 23.3 billion for rails...
...thanked him, bought a ticket and the traditional bag of peanuts, and stepped onto a boat. As we peddled along slowly, the ducks dabbled for peanuts, pigeons fluttered and landed on our brass rail, and grackles cawed and clucked on the ponds little island. On the boat itself, two children lost their pinwheels and a third hit a nearby pigeon's flank with a well-aimed peanut. The ride was as the skipper had said, though, smooth, gliding, and graceful--just like a swan...
RAILROADS' OIL DRILLING will be banned along rail rights-of-way in Western U.S. Supreme Court ruled Government retains title to oil and gas deposits for 200 ft. on both sides of rights-of-way that it granted from...
...both legislative and judicial, as well as purely administrative functions. The Interstate Commerce Commisssion, for instance, is to see that railroad rates are "reasonable," while giving a "fair return" to the industry and "adequate" service to the customer. Its rulings eventually affect the price of every product shipped by rail and the cost of travel. It investigates violations of these regulations and its quasi-judicial powers to extend to adjudication of disputes arising under them. Thus the ICC serves as legislator, prosecuting attorney, and court, hardly a position in keeping with the traditional balance of powers...
...year for France by 1958, although there are now only three wells. To meet that short-range goal, the Cabinet last week allocated $6,000,000 to build two 150-mile, 10 in. pipelines from the oilfields at Hassi-Messaoud and Edjeleéé to the rail terminal at Touggourt in the northeast Sahara. From there the oil would travel 338 miles by train to the Mediterranean at Philippeville, Algeria. By 1960 Lemaire hopes to increase production to 70 million bbl. from reserves that are estimated at more than 7 billion bbl. To do it, the Cabinet also okayed...