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Word: shenango (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...hustle, short lines will go on being short. Their less than 2% share of total rail revenues last year was a tiny tweet amid the mighty roar of the main lines. Mergers, of course, still take place. The Lehigh & Susquehanna disappeared last year into the Reading, and the Mohoning & Shenango into the New York Central. But one thing is certain: in 1964, the nation's short lines are too various, too scattered-and too content with their tiny place in the sun-for another Pennsy or Central ever to emerge from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: The Little Lines That Could | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

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