Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accordingly, any fool can plainly see that the U.S. trunk and regional carriers are dangerous to ride and that the commuter and taxi services are safe to ride...
...director of public utilities. Making up in enthusiasm what he lacked in experience, Stefanski persuaded Stokes to start a massive effort to scrub the Cuyahoga, and hence aid Lake Erie. The proposed price tag: $100 million in bonds, to improve existing facilities and build 25 miles of trunk-line sewers plus a modern sewage treatment plant...
...line executive puts it, "vacation dollars are expendable dollars." Inflation and the incipient economic slowdown have cut into travel for both business and pleasure. In the first six months of 1969, passenger travel rose 11% from the 1968 level, 4% less than anticipated. During June, six of the eleven trunk carriers reported significantly lower increases...
...quick. In the longer run, some mergers seem almost inevitable to reduce the problems of climbing costs and too much competition for too little traffic. If the U.S. can get by with only four auto manufacturers, it should be able to make do with fewer than eleven trunk carriers and scores of regional and nonscheduled lines...
...Orleans gives you the feeling of having the whole United States balancing on your fulcrum. I have a very strong sense of the Mississippi River being the trunk of the America tree. When the country falls over, New Orleans will drift out into the Gulf as the stump...