Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding in an open car the Pope rolled through city and town. Spires, lampposts, postmen's bicycles, railroad stations, pretty girls' balconies, all were ablaze with flowers, and the tails of innumerable papal banners, yellow and white, the colors of the Supreme Pontiff from distant Rome, fluttered against a blue...
...financial incentives to adapt disused buildings to creative new uses. The U.S. Department of the Interior has boosted its funding of such projects from $300,000 in 1968 to $60 million this year, as much in realization of their economic potential as appreciation of their historic value. Old courthouses, railroad stations, firehouses, police stations, armories, ice houses, hotels, office buildings, factories, warehouses, schools and department stores have found a lively new lease on life. They are what one Interior Department official calls "the last frontier" for urban rediscovery...
...port will speed up the slow, cumbersome system of tax depreciation. At present, companies are allowed to take deductions from their income to make up for the depreciation of their aging factories and equipment. Those deductions vary according to the expected life of the plant or gear. For example, railroad equipment can be depreciated over 40 years, tractors over three years. Faster depreciation would reduce taxes and thus increase the capital available for investment...
...amazing exception happens to be the U.S., a nation that pioneered in railroading with more vigor and daring than any other in the 19th century. It also did so on a grander scale, binding an immense continent with tracks and producing trains of such magnificence that they moved Nathaniel Hawthorne to exclaim: "They spiritualize travel!" Most Americans once agreed, and even today travelers lucky enough to wind up on a good train find this way of traveling superior in every way to the fumes and peeves of the throughways and the sardine-can intimacy of the time-rupturing jet planes...
...mirrors his student infatuation with Colette (Marie-France Pisier), the bouffant-haired, Capri-painted flirt he had met 20 years before at a Berlioz Youth concert. Antoine runs past her outside the courthouse where his divorce from Christine has just been made official, only to see her at the railroad station when, always the incurable romantic, he jumps aboard her train. First seen in The 400 Blows, his mother's lover comes back to show Antoine her grave in the Montmartre cemetary...