Word: piggybacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinct trend in the industry is toward ever bigger long-distance haulers; 20-ton giants and 42-wheel monsters are already at work. Yet, paradoxically, the days of the continent-spanning truckers may be running out because railroads are fighting back so successfully with their long-distance piggyback service, which last year took 500,000 highway trips away from trucks. The piggyback threat worries truck builders, but they see a bright side of it: there will always have to be truck tractors to deliver the trailers before and after their piggyback...
With $232 million in loans from the C. & O. and its bankers, the B. & O. plans over the next five years to repair 9,000 old freight cars, buy 18,000 new ones, enlarge tunnels that are now too small to accommodate profitable piggyback traffic, improve its yards, and buy additional automated rail controls. Though the two roads plan to keep separate their rates, routes and sales forces, they will consolidate ticket offices and terminals in cities from Chicago to Washington. Best estimate of able B. & O. President Jervis Langdon, 57, is that all this will save...
...sandbags to plug holes in the dikes; helicopters fluttered over drowning villages picking up survivors and dropping milk for starving infants. In Hamburg, Danish frogmen dived beneath the waters to hunt for bodies: for six hours two Bundeswehr soldiers stood in shoulder-deep water holding two children piggyback. The parents of the children finally succumbed to exhaustion and slipped beneath the flood tide. It was so cold that many people froze to death on rooftops before rescuers arrived...
...prospects for a tunnel grew brighter and brighter, French truckers became alarmed that the rail-only link might cut their earnings by forcing them to piggyback through the tunnel. Joined by British and French steelmakers, who stand to sell about 800,000 tons of steel if a bridge is built, the truckers set up a pro-bridge group headed by shrewd, forceful Jules Moch, last Interior Minister of France under the Fourth Republic...
...network of "word watchers"-avid amateurs with Sprachgefühl (feeling for speech), who constantly peruse novels, menus, labels, ticket stubs, and even small-town news paper accounts of obscure murders. The head of Merriam's own shipping department, for example, is the part-time scholar who netted piggyback, as used in railroad freight hauling...