Word: boxcar
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...Flying Boxcar," en route from Japan to Korea, had 44 men aboard: an Air Force crew of seven and 37 U.S. troops returning from "R & R" (rest & recreation) leave in Japan. Many of the soldiers had bought Christmas presents for their families and sweethearts...
...which the Radio Corp. of America hopes may soon revolutionize the yard techniques of U.S. railroads. Beside B. & O.'s main incoming track, RCA had set up a Vidicon camera, a new type of TV camera which RCA put on sale last week. The camera picked up the boxcar numbers, flashed them on a screen in the yard's four-story control tower. Another camera, set between the tracks (with floodlights) and aimed upward, inspected the passing cars for cracked truck frames, broken springs, missing journal-box lids, etc. Though the equipment will continue to be tested...
...that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in a troopship headed up the coast. After that, for unending years, life for them will be only the salt and henequen of the Three Marys...
...nothing about elevators," says Howe, "so there was nothing to hamper me." He worked out new ways of speeding up construction and designed cost-cutting improvements. To replace the slow process of unloading grain with hand shovels, he developed the Howe Car Dumper, a machine which can lift a boxcar full of grain off the railway track, tip it over and empty it in eight minutes. It is still in use at most Canadian terminals...
False Alarm. In Indianapolis, police rushed to the freight yards to look for a dismembered body in a boxcar, found Howard Finley resting beside his wooden...