Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest new company since U.S. Steel in 1901. Going into business on June 1 will be the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the greatest private transportation outfit in the world, with assets of $6 billion and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. On 19,356 miles of road, it will haul 12% of the nation's freight and serve 2,816 communities from Montreal to Cairo, Ill., and from Chesapeake Bay to uppermost Michigan. The deal between two century-old rivals climaxes nine years of negotiations, which began with huddles among the late Central Chief Robert R. Young, current...
...home in Italy, where three out of every four cars on the road are Fiats, the company in 1965 produced 1,013,588 vehicles-its first million-unit year -and rang up sales of $1.5 billion. Production this year will rise 12-15%, to about 1,150,000 vehicles. Fiat also produces most of what it takes to put a car together and make it work, from ingots to machine tools to oil. Under the slogan "Fiat Land Sea Air," the company also makes railway and marine equipment, jet aircraft and engines...
Kivukoni College was founded at the time of Tanganyika's independence in 1961 to help train men moving into positions of leadership in the country at the local level. It stands across the harbor from Dar es Salaam, accessible only by ferry or five circuitous miles of dirt road. I crossed the ferry for the first time in June, 1964, a little bedraggled from a 24-hour bus trip from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam and very curious about what it would be like to teach there. A man in a Volkswagen, who turned out to be a West German...
...went to school for half the day and the other half was spent working with our students to build a new school. The first two months our spirits were high, the weather was relatively cool, and there was almost no visible evidence of our labor. We built a gravel road, dug holes in the ground for building supports, and made the building supports out of steel rods and steel rings...
...mobilize popular support against the highway. Doing either of these things will be difficult, but even if it does succeed, the prospect of the Inner Belt's being scrapped remains slim. One must reckon with the facts: both state and federal highway officials are highly committed to the road; Gov. John A. Volpe is solidly behind the highway; and thus far, the opposition has lacked both the breadth and depth to convince any pro-Belt politician that his political salvation lies in a change of position. Opposition to the Inner Belt is a local Cambridge issue. Under just the right...