Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent unions to join the federation, but probably without effect. Healy thinks. "I see little prospect of the independents coming under the umbrella of the federation," he said. "With a change in their administration, however, the United Mine Workers might be interested in joining. As for the four operating rail-road brotherhoods, there is little possibility of their being assimilated...
...Although the Soviet bloc hauls 85% of its freight by rail (v. less than 50% in the U.S.), it has only half as many locomotives as the U.S. and Western Europe combined, and only 3% of them are diesels or electric. Little Britain has more freight cars than vast Russia...
...much. Said one Iberia executive: "It's just gotten too big for us. We have to refuse hundreds of people every day." Potholes & Safety Belts. The reason for Iberia's booming business is simply that flying is the best way to get around in Spain. By rail, the 312-mile trip to Barcelona from Madrid takes all day, costs $9.50 on a rattletrap train. Highway travel is just as bad-over narrow, potholed, mountainous roads. But in one of Iberia's 32 British and American planes (mostly Douglas DC-3s and DC-4s) the Barcelona trip takes...
...Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...
...most spectacular gains were made by the railroads, which were cashing in on the business upswing; they had their best day in 21 years. New York Central was up 3⅛ points for the week, to 36⅝; Pennsy was up ¾, to 24½. The Dow-Jones rail average soared 4.03 points in one day, to 144.34; the industrials rose 3.71 points, closed at 395.6 for a week's loss of 13.29 points...