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Word: superail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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...city's hands for $615 million. Then there was the Chalk plan to lure New York-Washington commuters away from the trains and airlines with a fleet of seven-passenger limousines equipped with telephones and dictating machines. Currently Chalk is absorbed in an 85-m.p.h. rubber-tired "Superail," similar to monorails. He wants to build one from Washington, D.C., across the Potomac to the new Dulles International Airport, another from Orlando, Fla., to Cape Canaveral, and a third in Puerto Rico. The cost of these projects he is willing to share with the U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitalists: The World of Roy Chalk | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

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