Word: rails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field broke into the din at the start: Citation just off the pace, Noor far back in the ruck. The real battle started at the mile and a half. Citation moved into the lead with a rush and Noor, skirting the flying ribbon of color on the rail, came up from behind and closed for the final duel. Noor was first as they headed for home. Then Citation came up again; for second after aching second, they ran shoulder to shoulder, wild and even as a runaway team, while the stands and infield erupted insane sound...
...trial had drawn the attention of half the world. On hand were photographers, newsmen, feature writers (among them, Novelists Fannie Hurst and John O'Hara), reporters from London and Paris newspapers. Dr. Sander, lean-faced, pale and expressionless, his busy and respected career interrupted, sat inside the courtroom rail with his wife, the mother of his three children...
...Students International Travel Association provides guided rail, motor, and bicycle trips throughout Europe at prices ranging from $435 to $930. Inquire 545 5th Avenue...
...persons and injured 24 in the past twelve years in grade-crossing accidents. State and railroad, at long last, were building an overpass. While the work was going on, trains were being run, one way at a time, over about 2,000 feet of "gantlet" tracks-with the left rail of the westbound track inside the eastbound rails. (A gantlet eliminates the need for a switch...
...Long Island Rail Road was bought in 1900 by the Pennsylvania. After 1935, with the exception of three war years, the Long Island lost money, and in March 1949 the Pennsylvania declared it bankrupt and said it was on its own. A few months later, the Nassau County Transit Commission charged that the Pennsylvania had systematically milked its subsidiary. It charged that: for the L.I.'s tugs and barges to move freight across New York Harbor, the Pennsy paid the L.I. only 35? a ton, collected as much as $1.10 from shippers; the Pennsy...