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...Menk says railroads should get out of the railroad business," cried an ad in the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers this week. "Who does he think he is?" Who, indeed, but the president of the 14,000-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Louis Wilson Menk obviously had more on his mind than his catchy headlines seemed to say. "We're not in the railroad business," continued the ad. "We're in the distribution business. Mere semantics...
...York Central. The ICC at the same time stalled the merger trend among the richer railroads of the U.S. West. In a surprising and bitterly dissented 6-5 decision, it vetoed-at least for now-a union of the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
...than a decade ago, J. P. Stevens & Co., the U.S.'s second largest textile-fabric maker, did not produce a single consumer end product; now it makes dozens, including sheets, towels, blankets, stockings and draperies. The industry also has prospered as a result of imaginative research. For example, Burlington Industries, the largest of them all (1965 sales: $1.3 billion), sells thermal-lined draperies with a thin layer of acrylic that effectively absorbs cold drafts that sift in through window frames. Possible products now undergoing final tests in Burlington labs: a carpet woven with stainless steel filaments that will eliminate...
...Union Pacific's trains from Chicago to the West Coast still maintain a tradition of comfort and good service that continues to attract passengers. The Burlington, whose California and Denver Zephyrs used to carry peak loads only in summer, will spend $350,000 this winter jointly with Hertz Corp. to promote Colorado skiing. It has already been so successful that ski-season reservations on its trains must often be made months in advance...
...slacks in the U.S. are now Koratron-treated, and the permanent crease is becoming a feature of everything from bathing trunks to blue jeans. Koret's formula, patented in 1961, has been eagerly licensed by such companies as Levi Strauss, Jantzen, Alligator, Botany, Burlington, J. P. Stevens, Deering Milliken and Talon...