Word: boxcars
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...Midwest, mountains of grain lay aging in elevators for lack of boxcars to move the stuff to market centers. In the Far West, the area hardest hit by the boxcar shortage, at least 15 lumber mills have had to shut down temporarily because their production was far outdistancing their ability to transport. Similarly, because plywood plants cannot ship, the price of standard-grade plywood has jumped by more than one-third (from $62 per 1,000 sq. ft. to $86) in two months...
...made him by inheritance the largest single stockholder in IBM (167.000 shares now worth $85.5 million). Besides refining his taste for good living and pretty girls, Fairchild tended his investments wisely, personally developed the first plane with an enclosed cabin (the FC-1), manufactured the C-119 Flying Boxcar, and built superb but too costly hi-fi equipment. Like many inventors, Fairchild was a better creator than administrator...
...ungainly craft rolled out by Bell Aerosystems last week looked like a collection of outsize beer barrels draped over a discarded boxcar. But inside each barrel was a three-bladed propeller, and between two of them was a stubby wing. The boxcar fuselage contained some of the most complex machinery in the history of flight. The whole contraption was billed as the X-22A. Bell's contribution to the roster of V/STOL (Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing) airplanes...
...adroitly dramatizes the agony of memories. Sunning himself on a lawn in a bleak outpost of suburbia where he lives with relatives, Nazerman's mind melts back to an idyllic day in the old country with his wife and children. In a teeming subway, he suddenly sees the boxcar-prison where his son was trampled underfoot. In the pawnshop, when a Negro harlot strips to the waist, enticing him to pay double for a gold locket, the old man recalls how he was forced to watch his naked wife submitting to a Nazi...
...with Boxcars. The best gains were made by the long-troubled Eastern railroads, largely because they made the most noteworthy improvements in equipment. The Pennsylvania, whose net rose 115% to $50 million, now has "unitized trains" that carry only one commodity between two fixed points (coal from mine to utility) and make 156 round trips a year, v. 18 under the old boxcar system. The New York Central's profits soared 150% to $35 million, largely because of gains from its Flexi-Vans and triple-tiered auto-hauling carriages, which enabled the line to carry 900,000 autos last...