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Main attraction of the Penn Station site, said Pennsy Chairman James M. Symes, is the fact that it "is the hub of mass transportation in New York." Into Penn Station chug 650 trains daily; the station also has direct connections with four subway lines, bus lines, and tunnels and bridges to New Jersey. Currently losing $2,500,000 a year on the maintenance of Penn Station, the Pennsy expects its share of the revenues from the new Garden to cut its operating loss on the station to $1,000,000 annually. Those who mourn Manhattan's disappearing architectural landmarks...
...thick black tide of oozing oil. Russian oil salesmen with barter deals in their briefcases stride the sidewalks of Beirut, Colombo and Tokyo. Earnest technicians from Moscow probe the earth in India, Ghana, Cuba and Pakistan to help the locals find petroleum of their own. Fat tankers chug out of the Black Sea toward a score of nations already signed up at bargain-basement prices for Commilube, the fuel of friendship...
...Rolls-Royce does not "chug" no matter what the weather may be. It may skip, falter and, on rare and seldom proven occasions, even fail, but chug-never! It glides...
...stiffest import duties (a 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air costs $21,691) and an average auto age of 20. It is probably the only nation in the world which had more cars per capita in 1928 than it does now. Many a Buenos Aires taxi is over 30. Taxis chug along, doors tied shut with string, bodies rocking precariously on chassis, drivers flailing their arms to compensate for 180° of steering-wheel play. In Chile, where the buyer of a $2,000 U.S. car must post an import-discouraging $20,000 bond for three months, some 60% of the country...
...million deepwater port, a $3,500,000 cement factory and acres of new houses. Close to 4,000 workers are employed catching, cleaning and canning plentiful white sea bass, sardines, rock lobsters. A new cannery packs tomatoes and chili peppers grown on farms to the south. White-painted boats chug in and out of the harbor, carrying the guests of 44 new motels to sport-fishing grounds...