Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting down Mt. Auburn Street, you discover that Cahaly's Market is offering 7c off on Gravy Train. The Harvard Food Services was unavailable for comment. But if it's food you're after, go directly to the Bick, where the window proclaims "Prices Slashed!" You can get, among other things, fishcakes and beans for 70 cents-but only on Friday. The rest of the week you have...
...compromise between the city and the MBTA also quelled rumors that Harvard might raze an apartment building near the train yard and donate the land to the Kennedy Foundation...
...Interstate Commerce Commission refused to allow the Louisville & Nashville to scrap the only remaining train between St. Louis and Atlanta. If patronage was poor, the ICC said, it was due "in no small measure to a marked deterioration in service." Neither food nor beverage vending machines, noted the indignant commission, were provided on the 609-mile...
...Limited. To speed the way, the railroads have adopted a number of plans calculated to make the going miserable. Penn Central has walled up the main entrance of its Detroit terminal and removed the baggage lockers inside. A sign in a Union Pacific train advises passengers that "on days livestock is to be carried, Train 82 runs about a half-hour later than the schedule shows." The Southern Pacific, the nation's most profitable railroad, has employed classic tactics to depopularize the once elegant Los Angeles-to-New Orleans Sunset. Phone calls for departure and arrival information go unanswered...
...railroads practice all sorts of tricks with timetables to discourage traffic. The Chesapeake and Ohio schedules its trains between Detroit and Grand Rapids to arrive after 2 a.m. The Southern Pacific's Lark reaches Los Angeles from San Francisco 35 minutes too late to connect with the eastbound Super Chief and 20 minutes after the last train to San Diego. Passengers on the Baltimore & Ohio's night train from Washington to Detroit are put off at Fostoria, Ohio at 5:30 a.m. and loaded aboard busses for the last leg of the trip. Then there is the nostalgia...