Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Hulett Clinton Merritt, 83, financier-industrialist who was a multimillionaire at 21, sold his rail and mining interests to become the largest individual stockholder in U.S. Steel, was president or board chairman of 138 different companies; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Just a Great Big Noise. "For three-quarters of a mile it was just another horse race. Then, at the half-mile pole, Seabiscuit moved, hugging the rail. A horse named Whichcee came over on Seabiscuit sharply. The crowd of 80,000 seemed to hold its breath. For an instant the four-legged horse and the two-legged boy, with four good legs between them, seemed certain to go down. But Pollard had learned the hard way-in the Western bull rings-and managed to ease off. The Biscuit drew off to win . . . from his own stablemate, Kayak...
Stretching eastward from Cleveland, the plants and rail yards reached 50 miles to Ashtabula, Ohio, spread south so fast that the road to Akron, 30 miles away, will be a solid line of industry within ten years...
Next biggest item is building rent ($62 million), although Korea has more U.N.-built building space (some 20 million sq. ft. of it) than the U.N. Command is being asked to pay for. Rhee asks $60.8 million for transportation, although the U.N. has supplied his rickety rail system with 45 locomotives, 1,696 pieces of rolling stock, enough rails, switches and crossties for 1,811 miles of track. The U.N. has also built 2,138 miles of Korean highway, 525 bridges. Though Rhee asks $38.6 million for electricity, U.N. generating barges at Pusan and Inchon pump unmetered quantities of electricity...
...ordered that the Southern rail and bus companies be "required to cease and desist, on or before Jan. 10, 1956, and thereafter to abstain from practicing the undue and unreasonable prejudice and disadvantage found to exist...