Word: repairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With $232 million in loans from the C. & O. and its bankers, the B. & O. plans over the next five years to repair 9,000 old freight cars, buy 18,000 new ones, enlarge tunnels that are now too small to accommodate profitable piggyback traffic, improve its yards, and buy additional automated rail controls. Though the two roads plan to keep separate their rates, routes and sales forces, they will consolidate ticket offices and terminals in cities from Chicago to Washington. Best estimate of able B. & O. President Jervis Langdon, 57, is that all this will save...
...rotating dairy crew milks the school's 70 cows, meets the other boarders at 7:30 breakfast. After tidying their rooms, the youngsters attend chapel, join the day students in regular classwork until midafternoon. Then the boarders get cracking again. The boys polish floors, mow lawns, repair buildings, haul garbage, plow the fields. Girls swarm into the boys' dormitory with mops and pails, cook dinner using produce from the school's 350-acre truck garden. After dinner: study hall, lights out by 10:30 at the latest. Saturday morning is for more work; Sunday hikes exercise those...
...sort of battle commander who can make a careful assessment of the casualties needed to win and then go off to a peaceful lunch." He has already raised fares on heavily traveled commuter runs and proposed to scuttle lightly traveled ones. He wants to close 24 obsolescent repair shops (which would eliminate 18,000 jobs), also intends to speed up freight schedules and give major companies their own freight cars in what he calls "the livery of their own choice...
...anti-jay-walking measure, Rudolph says, the Commonwealth will deny Cambridge's legal to enforce certain kinds of new traffic laws. This would apply to motor vehicle or pedestrian rulings at any new traffic light the city installs, or at any traffic light system now operating which underrgoes repair of revision...
Seldom has Hong Kong's business been better. Big hotels such as the fustily genteel Peninsula and Repulse Bay are packed with tourists. The repair yards of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. hum with ships coming and going. Passengers crowd the Star Ferry Co. boats and the Peak Tramways' cable cars, which provide the most spectacular 10? rides in the world. China Light & Power Co. is adding four 60-megawatt turbines at a total cost of $34 million...