Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, in a hopeful effort to modernize Brazil's patchwork economy, the U.S. and Brazil set up a joint commission in Rio to pass on rail, electric power, and other projects suitable for development loans. In the spacious cordiality of the hour, U.S. officials predicted that the joint commission's work would bring Brazil from $350 to $500 million in loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the World Bank. Last week, with only $122 million in such loans granted, the U.S. prepared to wind up the commission and send its members home...
Communion. There remained one more duty for Elizabeth II to perform: to receive the Lord's Supper. The liturgy of the Holy Communion was said as the Archbishop led the Queen to the Communion rail. Kneeling, she removed her Crown and offered the oblation which custom demands of monarchs: "An ingot or wedge of gold, of a pound weight," and "a pall or altar cloth." Philip, her husband, stepped to her side, and while the choir sang the hymn, All People That on Earth Do Dwell, man & wife received the bread and wine. Together, they led the prayer...
...lure of the Delaware Valley is threefold: good rail and water transportation, plenty of labor, and proximity to the biggest market in the U.S.-the 21 million people who live within a radius of 100 miles of Philadelphia. For Big Steel, there has been one flaw: it built at Morrisville with the idea that ore boats from its huge Venezuela iron deposit could come right up the river to the plant. But so far, it has been able to get only smaller ships upriver, with Congress holding back on the money needed to dredge the channel the last 30 miles...
...Marquette's cargo-wines, liquors, marble, foodstuffs and cork from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal-was a symbol of the flourishing postwar trade between Europe and Great Lakes ports. Shippers estimate that the all-water route is 10% to 20% less costly than rail-water transshipment from Europe via New York City. There are now 44 ships in the service, all shallow enough in draft to navigate the St. Lawrence River canals (maximum depth: 14 ft.) and short enough to get through the smallest lock...
Going into the far turn, the Dancer began his move, slipping inside along the rail to pass one horse, then closing in fast on Dark Star. At the mile mark-with only three-sixteenths to go-Dark Star and Native Dancer were almost head & head, just like the Kentucky Derby script. This time, though, Dark Star dropped out of the running and left it to Jamie K. to measure the Dancer's heart...