Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar figure around the seamy fight clubs of Philadelphia, Washington, and Reading, Pa. - a sleepy-eyed Negro who would trade leather with anyone for the price of a train ticket and a night on the town...
...railroads are now willing to lavish funds on this lucrative freight operation. Last week in Chicago, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway dedicated its new Proviso Piggyback Plaza, a 20-acre, twelve-track staging point for road trailers moving by train. This week the Baltimore & Ohio is completing an $11 million project in which 18 tunnels are being enlarged, or are being bypassed altogether, to clear the way for piggy back trains moving west. The Southern is busy on a similar $35 million program on the line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga...
...also been cleared for piggybacking by the emergence of companies that now buy and lease piggy back cars and trailers, leaving railroads free to spend capital on track and tunnel improvement and such new yards as Proviso Piggyback. The most energetic of the leasing companies is Philadelphia-based Trailer Train Co., whose stock is owned by 35 railroads and by the U.S. Freight Co., the nation's largest freight forwarder. The company started with 530 piggyback cars in 1956, now has 16,000 moving around the U.S. - and is ordering hundreds of new ones each month. It pays...
...Much Rain. LAMCO has had its troubles. Liberia's 180-in. annual rainfall has repeatedly washed away roads and railbeds. European and American managers quarreled under the strain of high-pressure work at high-level humidity. The Swedes unwisely promised to train Liberians for skilled-labor and executive jobs in advance, then found that during the hectic construction period they had no time to do any training. Though the company is belatedly catching up with its promise, it has ruffled feelings among the Liberians...
...during World War II. Waste is inevitable because the government does not have time to do things the right way, and the wrong-but-fast way is invariably the most expensive. Instead of hiring only the best technicians, engineers, and research assisstants, NASA must hire everyone available and train people for jobs in which they may later prove incompetent, in the all-out effort to solve problems quickly. The space and defense effort now employs three-fourths of the scientific community, depriving other fields of valuable minds and drawing scientists away from projects which might technically, medically, or otherwise advance...