Word: railways
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...Jack" Lang, charged sensationally that Chifley himself once lent money at rates up to 9%. Labor's embarrassed leader said it was true-only he had invested the money for proletarian friends and neighbors, taken nothing for himself. At his final rally, shirtsleeved Premier Chifley mixed with former railway cronies, reminded hard-drinking Australians how Labor had relaxed the closing time for pubs: "Remember how pubkeepers had to keep cockatoos to warn them when cops were coming...
Chicago's Loop was clogged with honking automobiles and pushing shoppers; the Indianapolis street railway had to put every last car in service to handle the great crowds, and Seattle had one of the biggest downtown traffic jams in history...
...hoped Liebaert, would save $30 million in 1950 and $40 million in 1951. Though Belgium has a deficit of $90 million this year, Liebaert, no advocate of the welfare state, thought he could still balance the budget, as well as drop taxes, by trimming social-security benefits, coal and railway subsidies...
...Eastern roads had persuasive arguments to prove that their plight was not their fault. With investors shying away from railroads the carriers had trouble financing major improvements, except what could be done out of earnings. Furthermore, the ironclad rules of the railway brotherhoods kept railroad costs high by featherbedding. Worse still, the railroads had suffered from too much regulation, notably, out-of-date rules intended to keep them from becoming transportation monopolies-something which the buses and airlines now prevent, anyway...
...something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...