Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...details more than 50 cut-rate fares. Examples: the 1,500-mile trip from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso for $9.50, the 2,780-mile jog from Montreal to Vancouver for $35. Great stuff for train buffs, the book gives departure and arrival times for more than 9,000 rail trips worldwide, with specifics about en route scenery and service (on the Peking-Shanghai run an acupuncturist is available), as well as advice on tour planning. Authors Marvin L. Saltzman and Kathryn Saltzman Muileman even log the World's Longest Train Ride, an 8,000-mile odyssey from Lisbon across...
Dodge Main made Hamtramck. Thousands of Polish families, following a trail of promises, booked passage on the ship to Montreal and came on by boat or rail to Detroit to dominate the plant's work force. "There was a time when, if your name didn't end in 'ski,' you couldn't get in here," says one plant official. Old World bakeries and sausage shops sprang up. Bars and beer gardens huddled around the giant factory to wet a thousand throats at shift change...
...governor has also been attacked for violating the peace settlement by allowing a 250-man South African army unit to remain just inside the border at Beitbridge to protect the vital rail bridge Unking the two countries. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere made blustering threats to break off relations with Britain unless Soames ousts Pretoria's troops and stops deploying the Rhodesian security forces...
...When you get science in school, it's so pure," says Debbie Merrill, 20, a sophomore majoring in environmental studies at the University of Vermont. "You never hear about how the researchers lost some of the sampling bottles in the ocean, or how sick they were at the rail." Arndt Braaten, 19, a junior at Luther College, discovered during spectro-photometric analysis in West-ward's lab that tiny particles of iron peel away from the ship's hull and form measurable concentrations in water samples taken within a few feet of the ship, a possible source...