Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, for example, must underload his trailer in order to meet the requirements of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Shippers may also profit by lower rates. The cost of shipping by piggyback is estimated at 20? per trailer mile v. about 24? over the road. Furthermore, piggybacking combines the advantages of rail and truck transport: 1) the speed and dependability of rail, no matter what the weather; 2) the flexibility and door-to-door delivery of trucking...
...Dancer was bumped badly on the first turn. The post-mortems suggest that he did not get the best ride from Jockey Eric Guerin. The Dancer made a tremendous, express-train move, and pulled inside to the rail behind the front-running Dark Star. He was boxed in by a horse to his right and so Guerin had to pull up, swing him out and demand a big rush all over again. Once more, the Dancer surged in, pounded by Guerin all the way down the stretch, and almost caught Dark Star. He lost by a head. "In that last...
...gaping stands were empty, except for a handful of dockers who sit every morning like a band of peering overweight crows to collect data which may or may not tell something about how a given horse will do in a race. Hugging the rail, the horses that were really "working" (i.e., going all-out) drummed by, and the dockers shouted out cryptic fractions...
...shore at the river's mouth, the Queen was more plainly discernible. Like perhaps a thousand or more other mothers on the shore at that precise moment, she was firmly gripping the coat collar of her squirming son to keep him from leaning too perilously over the rail. The cheers that rose at the sight of her familiar, youthful, dignified figure on the Britannia's deck were tinged with relief and thanksgiving. It is part of the family feeling that characterizes the British attitude toward its monarchy that all Britons feel safer when their sovereign is home...
...toughest three-week distribution scrambles that Pearson has had was during the Fraser Valley flood of 1948. All eastern rail and road connections to Vancouver were cut off. Pearson was on the phone almost constantly, directing shipments of TIME off planes to trains, and off stranded trains back to planes as bridges went out, flights were canceled. Says he: "It was an hour-to-hour guessing game of where to shuffle the load next...