Word: rails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speed trains have been financed under the $90 million High Speed Ground Transportation Act. It calls for joint Government-industry sponsorship of demonstration projects to see if high-speed service will help revive passenger trains and unsnarl highways and airways. It also aims to provide a model for similar rail service between such cities as Chicago and Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco...
...cost more than the older and slower equipment that they will replace. But they can more than pay their way-provided that travelers support them at the ticket window. How many will? A study by Arthur D. Little Inc. estimates that on trains restricted to speeds under 120 m.p.h., rail passenger traffic would rise 6% on the New York-Boston run and only 1 % on the New YorkWashington run. If the speed limit were raised to 150 m.p.h., however, the number of passengers would jump 65% on the former and 18% on the latter...
Pipeline or Rail. Now that success seems almost assured, Atlantic and Humble, as well as eight other companies, will sink wells this winter. The season is favorable because the muskeg has frozen hard enough to support the rigs, and the huge swarms of bugs that plague workmen in summer have disappeared. Meanwhile, oilmen and speculators have applied for 5,000 new leases on tracts all over the state. Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, whose tribes were there before the white men, originally claimed 469,000 sq. mi. (80% of the state) under an old, almost-forgotten law. Now they are asking...
...Cultural Revolution. The document, a Red Guard pamphlet obtained in Hong Kong, purports to be the minutes of a meeting of the Peking leadership with rival Red Guard factions from the still troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment of aid to Hanoi. Exasperated officials summoned Red Guard leaders to an acrimonious conference in Peking, where the rebels were interrogated by the leadership, including Premier Chou En-lai and Kang Sheng, the Chinese Communist Party's expert in ideological matters. Excerpts from the transcript...
...petition, but the Commission itself overruled him. Said the ICC: "If those most directly concerned are willing to risk their capital with full knowledge of all relevant circumstances, the Commission should be reluctant to deny them an opportunity to improve the economy of their area." The Texas & Pacific Rail way, which carries freight out of Odessa, and wanted no new competition, appealed the ICC decision. The Santa Fe, which stops at Seagraves, joined the appeal. Last week the Supreme Court ruled for the Permian Basin...