Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowing rail shipments. With carloadings at 774,419 weekly (up 13.6% from the same week of 1954), the shortage is running at an average of 6.552 cars daily. To prevent it from becoming critical, the U.S. Commerce Department and Office of Defense Mobilization are considering loans and subsidies to spur construction of new boxcars...
...some $20 million stripping off the overburden, constructing ore-loading docks at Picton, 64 miles to the south, and building a mill at the mine site to convert the low-grade (37.5%) ore to pellets testing 65% iron. With ready access to rail transport (through a specially built C.N.R. spur) and a 211-mile water haul through Lake Ontario, the mine emerged as an economical source of ore for Bethlehem's Lackawanna plant, near Buffalo...
...large cut in military spending enabled the Administration to cut total outlays, it would undoubtedly follow the same policy it did after Korea: cut taxes by as much as, or a little more than the cut in Government spending, thus spur consumer spending...
...Dallas spur is short when measured against the great era of railroad building. But it is a small indication of the aggressive railroading for which the Santa Fe has been famed ever since the first seven-mile stretch was laid near Topeka almost 100 years ago. By always reaching out for new customers, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway...
Easing Burdens. The answer, said Butler, is yes. "The sheer burden of taxation is far too great. Some further lightening of the load is needed to give industry the spur to be more competitive." With a surplus in the Treasury of more than $1 billion. Butler lightened Britain's heavy tax load for this year by $375 million. His chief tax cuts...