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...move such vast quantities of goods. Although big appliance makers, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, still keep their distributors, they are shipping more and more goods directly to their dealers. This enables them to cut costs by pooling orders from dealers in the same area and shipping "split carloads" of goods, to them jointly, thus saving in shipping costs by eliminating the higher "less than carload" premium price...
...first carload of papers was sent off last night on a non-stop train bedecked with signs saying, "Crime for New York" and "Educate the New Yorkers." Francis M. V. Cahouet '54, CRIMSON Business Manager, is handling the problem of distribution. "We couldn't decide on a place for the hand out." Cahouet said, "but we finally picked Tammany Hall." Other copies will be sold in only the finer hotels around Pell and Mott streets...
...federal pen in Milan, Mich., after serving 14½ months of his 18-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Although Costello got time cut off his stretch for good behavior, he was no sooner out of the prison gate than he was in trouble again. Pursued by a carload of persistent newsmen, he ordered his chauffeur to step on the gas. sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows please quit chasing me? Do you want...
Trailed by a carload of Secret Service men, the black Cadillac turned westward, picked up Route 40 outside Denver and headed into the Rockies. Twisting and climbing to a top of 11,314 ft. in Berthoud Pass on the Continental Divide, Route 40 west of Denver is a spectacular highway. It was a ride Ike thoroughly enjoyed, and he was making it in pleasant company. With him were his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Doud, and a pair of old friends, General Lucius Clay and Washington Contractor Charles Tompkins. Mamie, who has been feeling under the weather and has appeared...
Medical scientists now have both the knowledge they need to wipe out tuberculosis as a public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease...