Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Los Angeles harbor to Honolulu. At dawn one day last week, L'Apache's boom tackle broke. It had to be repaired under way, with 8-ft. seas running. Precious time was wasting. Crewman Ted Sierks, 40, an ex-Marine and photographer, was braced against the rail, trying to get the fractious boom under control. The rail broke and Sierks slid into...
...Heard a soothing report from Rail I. Grigsby, deputy U.S. commissioner of education: on the basis of the latest Selective Service requirements, college and university enrollments would drop only 8% next year...
Last week Tokyo's worried city fathers decided to put up anti-suicide signs on canal and river banks, bridges, rail-crossings in the capital. Proposed new appeal to the life-weary: "Come and have a heart-to-heart chat at your public welfare office...
...Pennsy's commuters have been the most vocal because they feel they have suffered the most. The sad and bloody history of the Long Island Rail Road, the Pennsy's bankrupt subsidiary, is not the only black mark. Clevelanders, who have had four suburban stops lopped off in the past year, fear that other stations will soon be wiped off the map. New Jerseyites have formed a "protective association" to get some action on such claimed commutation hazards as wooden trestles, high fares, and cars that let in snow and soot in the winter, heat and grime...
...Rails & Packing Crates. Lee's men scrounged 2,000 lengths of rail from bombed-out spur lines and abandoned mine railways. From the steel rails the welders fashioned a supply of I beams. The Koreans went out into the hills, returned with 1,500 bags of cement hidden there by the Japanese almost six years before. For forms, they used old packing crates from Tandy's supply dump. For cribbing, the Koreans borrowed thousands of railroad ties from the Andong-Taegu railway line, returned them promptly when they were through with them...