Word: track
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity can ill afford to lose Fitzgerald. His inspirational performances before he was hurt in the Dartmouth race bolstered the entire squad. Winter track will be considerably less exciting if he does not return in time...
...steel strike moved well beyond its 100th day, it chugged inevitably toward some kind of settlement on two separate tracks. On one track was the Justice Department's petition for a Taft-Hartley injunction to return the strikers to the mills for 80 days. On the other track was a resumption of bargaining between the steel companies and the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, while pressures mounted for settlement. The strongest pressure on the Big Steelmen came from small and medium-sized steel firms impatient for a settlement. This week the West Coast's Edgar F. Kaiser, the most...
...railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week took some levelheaded action. By unanimous vote, ICC approved the merger of two major Eastern seaboard soft-coal carriers, Norfolk & Western and the Virginian, allowed them to form a single system with assets of $970 million and 2,746 miles of track serving six states (see map). It was the biggest consolidation of two independent lines since ICC was formed in 1887, and one that President Stuart T. Saunders, who remains as boss of the surviving N. & W. could hail as a milestone. Said Saunders: "A great day in the history...
...financial problems. But it is at least a yellow caution light. Next on ICC's docket is the proposed merger between the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, whose combined loss in 1959's first half is more than $2,000,000. A clear track for this second major combination would revive industrywide merger talks (e.g., between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, and the proposed five-line New England tie-up of the Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, and Rutland Railway...
...late-summer and early-fall epidemic of what seemed to be mild polio. Few victims suffered paralysis, and all recovered, often with startling rapidity. In a 1942 outbreak in White Plains, Dr. Dalldorf saw what he calls "the footprints of other viruses," but it took him five years to track down the particles. From patients with similar illnesses in the Hudson River town of Coxsackie (pop. 2,800), Dr. Dalldorf isolated a hitherto unknown virus. The Coxsackie virus thus put the town* indelibly on the microbiological...