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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roller bearings, said Timken's intrepid ad, would permit "one-speed" railroading (identical speeds for freight and passenger trains), would accelerate the whole defense program, save building many new cars. Other roller-bearing claims: 1) starting resistance reduced by 88%; 2) elimination of hotbox delay; 3) reduced maintenance costs...
...roller-bearing a single car (excluding new trucks) costs $750 v. $40 for friction bearings. To convert the whole car supply, as Sanders' ad urged, would cost well over $1,000,000,000 and take two-thirds of the whole U.S. 1940 output of alloy steel, which has plenty of other defense uses. Furthermore, road speed is not the chief railroad bottleneck. Freight cars average only two hours a day in transit; what slows them up is not their friction bearings but standing in terminals, loading, unloading and making up trains...
Having already cleared Aluminum Co. of America of maintaining an illegal monopoly (TIME, Oct. 13), Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week wiped Alcoa's slate clean of the other Government charges of conspiracy and miscellaneous misconduct. With his marathon ad lib decision completed-it took him ten days to dictate it in open court, covered 680 pages -the longest (April 1937 to last week) lawsuit in U.S. history was over. The 72-year-old judge swiftly left Manhattan for a six-week vacation in Maine...
Judge Caffey does not write his decisions, prefers to ad lib them from the bench. With an occasional glance at his foolscap notes, he spoke for five days in a row last week, had another four or five days to go. His high-pitched emphases and muttered diminuendos even included instructions to the stenographers: "period, paragraph . . . quote, parenthesis . . . unquote." His whole audience was fascinated by his virtuoso command of the case. But only the Alcoa men were pleased...
...thrill of having something new added to your record will be secondary to the experience and fun gained in running an editorial page or selling an ad where others have failed. Past experience is not in any way necessary for present success, so gather ye rosebuds while ye may for tomorrow may find you in the Army...