Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, with the animals gone, the visitor's eye is drawn to the delicate yet cleverly engineered network of wooden joists that support the roof. This inside structuring makes possible vast, interior spaces that seem as impressive, because of the humble materials used, as those of cast-iron railroad stations or steel-structured airline terminals...
Decio himself is worth at least $70 million.* The son of an Italian immigrant grocer, he grew up in Elkhart next to the railroad tracks. When he was 21, he went to work in the garage behind the grocery store, where his father built mobile homes in his spare time. Later, Decio invested his savings of $3,200, talked friends into putting up $7,000, and began to introduce some method into what was then a helter-skelter industry. Borrowing some ideas from auto manufacturers, he offered many different models and sold them through competing dealers. From the garage...
...Britain's Selection Trust Ltd. hold lesser shares. Their hardest job has been to get the ore out from the Mount Newman area, which is 780 miles by road from the nearest large city, Perth. In just 14 months, U.S. and Canadian companies laid down 265 miles of railroad track to connect the site with Port Hedland, which until the iron boom had been a decaying northwestern port on waters swarming with deadly stonefish, sea snakes and sharks. When a despondent prospector blew himself up on the front porch of the Esplanade Hotel a decade ago, he disturbed only...
International Clientele. At nearby Nelson Point, the mining group dredged a deep-water channel, which can now accommodate 68,000-ton ships and is being enlarged to handle two 100,000-ton vessels at a time. The 3,500 workers who built the town, the mine, the railroad and 220-acre shipping facilities earned wages that were high by Australian standards because of the hardships and isolation-$80 a week for a shoveler, $100 for more skilled workers. Today the company employs...
Many of Moscow's guests were unabashedly reluctant about their presence, and ready to resist any Soviet attempt to railroad unpalatable resolutions through the assembly. Over the conference hung the shadow of Russia's intervention in Czechoslovakia?a shadow that even the presence of a docile Czechoslovak delegation led by new Party First Secretary Gustav Husak was unlikely to dispel. Still echoing were the gunshots exchanged by Soviet and Chinese soldiers along the Ussuri River. Then there were the ghosts at the banquet, the men who had refused to come: China's Mao Tse-tung, North Viet...