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Missiles & Rails. The booming construction industry and the railroads are little better off. Builders estimate that it will take 60 to 90 days of renewed steel production before normal deliveries are resumed. Says Robert V. Tishman, executive vice president of Tishman Realty & Construction Co.: "With very few exceptions, all construction jobs in the initial stages, where steel is a big factor, have been stopped." The strike slowed construction of vital defense projects, such as the Air Force's new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launching base at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, threatened Atlas ICBM deliveries. Military projects need...
...West Virginia ($11.6 million for the Virginian; $43.5 million for the N. & W.), they duplicated one another to the point where the two lines were not, in ICC's words, "in the public interest." Merged, they will economize by consolidating managements and by using the Virginian's better tracks eastward over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Virginian's coal piers and marshaling yard adjacent to the Norfolk Navy Base will probably be put up for sale. Estimated saving from the elimination of duplicate facilities and services: $1,000,000 per month...
...better explanation for the purchase is Getty's nose for a sharp deal. Only 20 minutes from London's Waterloo Station, Sutton Place is in the center of a rapidly developing suburban area where land goes for $35,000 an acre. On that basis, Getty's investment has a potential market of better than $6,000,000, exclusive of the house...
...consequence, they have little opportunity for thought and the development of understanding. "Our present system," he said, "may give an undue advantage to a certain type of mind which can handle large quantities of details readily, while unduly minimizing the performance of some other men who may really be better potential lawyers...
...They played a strong game, and were just a better team than we were. We just didn't move the ball as well as they did.... We came out of the game pretty well physically, which is as much as you can ask.... It's nice to have someone like Crouthamel on your side, though I think we do pretty well ourselves.... Penn will be rough, but we can be, too. We'll come back...