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...Providence & Worcester Railroad is a tiny (50 workers, 75 miles of track) Rhode Island freight hauler that has been beset by more problems than "the little engine that could" of children's fiction. In the past ten years, the giant Penn Central has tried to squeeze it off the tracks, it has lost seemingly do-or-die battles before both the Interstate Commerce Commission and the U.S. Supreme Court, and it has had to tough out an uphill struggle to survive on its own after years of being operated under lease. Today the line appears to be chugging toward...
...Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At no time since the burnished '30s has Hollywood been so big-name conscious. "The system is geared toward overworking the stars," Nicholson points out. "There aren't that many stars around to haul the freight...
...policies that spur rather than slow inflation. For example, the Agriculture Department is now buying up $100 million worth of "excess" beef and pork in a deliberate effort to keep prices paid to farmers and feed-lot operators from dropping. Federal regulatory agencies often set railroad, truck and barge freight rates high enough to protect the most inefficient carriers from competitive damage. A separate federal agency should be empowered specifically to watch for such practices and try to get them stopped...
...began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage clarinet player, he joined the musicians' union and also worked as a freight-yard helper and truck driver...
...hands in February. Avoiding inflammatory blockading tactics for the most part now, the independents effectively shut down national trucking for over a week. Violence again attracted the media, but little discussion was present over specific issues of federal regulation. When the government responded with a 6-per-cent freight surcharge for regulated carriers, the strike began to collapse...