Word: railroads
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...transformation of time did not begin, however, with the factory, but with a more surprising, yet obvious source-the railroad, and the exact coordination that railroading demanded...
...timetable, the matrix of coordination for the system as a whole. On single-track roads, a 30-second delay meant that one of two trains would be almost half a mile away from a siding or a passing track when they were scheduled to pass each other. Railroading was organized to move thousands of tons of goods at extremely high speeds and split-minute timing, the exactness or inexactness of which spelled increased savings or costs for shippers. Everyone who had a direct responsibility for the operation of trains-engineers, conductors, trainmen who moved cars to sidings and dispatchers...
...University of Chile, was arrested at a bicycle repair shop in Santiago on July 20, 1974. Four days later, a priest called the Guajardo family to inform them that Luis had been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard of the José Domingo Cañas detention center...
...Look lovely and keep your mouth shut," her brother advised her, voicing the wisdom of the age. At 22 she married a horsy, socially acceptable Irishman named Willie O'Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when she was 35 and walking on the downs near Brighton, she asked herself in the classic fashion: "Why should I be supposed to have no other interests than Willie and my children...
...complicated civil trial, lawyers expect to spend anxious months waiting for the judge's decision. But attorneys at the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund think matters have gone to weird lengths in the case of Storage Handler William English and other black employees of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. Their employment-discrimination suit-raising issues of promotion and seniority-was filed in 1969. The trial did not begin until January 1973. Then Georgia Federal Judge Alexander A. Lawrence set about pondering his decision. Now, two years and five months later, he is still pondering...