Word: rails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marshal yanked a padlock out of his pocket, snapped it summarily on the ship's rail and intoned: "This ship is seized in the name of the U. S. Government-and don't you dare move it." Then he hopped nimbly over the side and away...
...deny. Last week's accident was the first in four years for Hillman's Airways, which maintains the fastest daily air service between London and Paris. Imperial Airways, operating eleven planes across the Channel daily, boasts a personal accident insurance rate no higher than that for rail travel. For U. S. airlines the rate is eight times as high (TIME, July 30). Despite this fact, British planes fly only 2,300,000 miles per fatal accident whereas U. S. airlines in the first six months of this year flew more than 3,500,000 miles for every fatality...
Because two-thirds of the country's rail mileage is being operated at a loss, Federal Transportation Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman few months ago recommended a plan which, he claimed, would save the roads $100,000,000 annually. Key of the plan was that all rail merchandise services be pooled into two competing agencies of comparable traffic and financial strength, to be owned by two big groups of railroads. Mr. Eastman's plan left the railroads cold. Even less enthusiasm greeted suggestions for pooling of U. S. freight cars. To this the industry objected hotly with cries...
...their spokesman, however, they had to create a job for him. The two leading trade bodies were the American Railway Association, which compiles the weekly figures on car loadings, and the Association of Railway Executives, which represents railroad management. Neither association was strong enough to hold the proud & jealous rail systems of the country together on long-range policies. So last week the 150 Class I railroads voted to merge the two associations as the Association of American Railroads. Its platform...
...order to promote trade and commerce in the public interest, further improve railroad service, and maintain the integrity and credit of the industry, rail-road companies of the U. S. do hereby establish an authoritative national organization which shall be adequately qualified and empowered in every lawful way to accomplish these ends where concert of policy and action are required...