Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grim steel watchtowers equipped with machine-gun ports and studded along the frontier within sight of each other monitor every yard of the fence and the barren strip of no man's land behind it. The nine road, eight rail and two canal crossings are tightly guarded and brightly floodlit at night. Traffic is minutely inspected to foil escapes. Heat-sensitive devices are used to detect persons hidden in vehicles and barges, and trained German shepherd dogs roam underneath all trains to sniff out would-be escapees clinging to undercarriages...
Neither sermons, warnings nor concessions, however, appeared to sway the workers. On Wednesday, 30 new factories were struck in Wroclaw alone, including the massive PAFAWAG State Rail Transport factory. Walkouts also shut down the H. Cegielski heavy-machinery plant in Poznan. The next day, new strikes also spread to factories in Slupsk, Bydgoszcz and Grudziadz. By then the unrest had reached virtually every part of the country. Apart from the willful stoppages, the interruption of transportation links and the consequent lack of parts and raw materials forced many nonstriking factories to close down...
...There are some things the Japanese have that we can't imitate. Their inventories come from plants that surround their auto plants. Ours come in on rail cars from South Carolina. But we can learn from the way they plan their business; the way they don't have labor-management squabbles; the way they can stop the line when there's something wrong with...
...White House will point to the $25 billion in programs to promote U.S. energy production and conservation that are already part of this year's Synthetic Fuels Corp. legislation. In addition, the President will promise to spend heavily for mass transportation and upgrade rail and port facilities for shipping coal. Three weeks ago, Carter told a meeting of the National Urban League that these energy proposals alone would create "literally millions of jobs...
There are other facets of the conventions the TV cameras ignore--the railroad press lounge in the Garden basement, for example, where employees of the railway lobby distribute free beer, sandwiches, and advice about the need for more government subsidies to the rail industry. But the biggest distortion of the TV broadcasts is their ability to add excitement where it doesn't exist, and paradoxically, to miss the spirit during the few moments of true emotion...