Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FARMERS north of Louisville, Ky. were startled late one afternoon last fall by a strange spectacle coming down the B. & 0. railroad tracks. Rolling along at 3 m.p.h. was a Speno rail-grinding train. Six feet out from the last car was mounted a camera on a makeshift brace of 2 by 6 planks and spikes. Behind the camera a 6-ft.-5-in., 250-lb. man trotted along the ties, triggering the camera to catch the brilliant constellations of sparks thrown off by the rail grinders...
...their spoilsless victory. They have sent two frigates to patrol the Gulf of Aqaba and have placed four chartered merchant vessels in service between Elath and East African ports. Turning even the Suez blockage to advantage, the enterprising Israelis are already offering all comers overland transport by truck and rail to the Mediterranean. This week some 500 tons of Ethiopian hides and coffee are scheduled to be transshipped to Europe over this route, which, while costlier than the Suez passage, can compete with transport around the Cape of Good Hope...
Another big complaint is that airlines and trucks use public airfields and highways for a relatively small fee, while railroads must pay steep taxes and maintenance for every mile of rail. New Jersey alone collects an average $9,511 annually for every mile of line; the 13 railroads serving New Jersey pay $1.67 in state taxes for every $1 worth of business they pick up in the state. On top of that, railroadmen point to other special taxes, e.g., a federal railroad retirement tax, figured at of employee earnings v. only 2% for other industries, plus...
...after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only reliable democrat in Germany.' " Last week he sang his new song to the Free Democrats at Stuttgart: "A difference of opinion, be it ever so pronounced, must end. NATO is the steel rail that binds Germany to the military might of the U.S." But he also urged Germany to raise only a volunteer army, and called on the party to keep working for talks with the Russians...
...from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time-in itself a subject for congratulations on the oft-late New Haven.* But suddenly the devil got into the Dan'l Webster. A balky cast-iron shoe on the rear diesel rubbed on the third rail, started a fire that stopped the train in its tracks. After 25 minutes the fire was subdued, and so was President Alpert. Said he, as the Dan'l Webster moved into Grand Central Terminal. 55 minutes late: "If this train had proceeded another five or six miles, I would...