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...featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president of a major U.S. railway: "We could solve...
...Baer, to direct rescue operations and collect the remains of his crew. Soon all but one were languishing safely on a coral island. But Shafty was still at sea, towing in a panicky sailor who had been badly burned. "He's a champion swimmer−Harvard team," one crewman reassured the others. "Besides, it's only three miles. He'll make...
...hail one of our patrols," he said. From then until show's end, day and night, Shafty swam and swam and swam; the camera caught him barechested, fighting currents, rolling almost unconscious in the swirl, negotiating dangerous reefs, coughing, stumbling through the underbrush. "Let me tell you," says Crewman Maguire, "there's a guy." Soon some friendly natives were smuggling Shafty to safety and a rescue team. After a few more dips, the whole crew climbed aboard a U.S. PT boat, uncorked a "medicinal" bottle of hooch and sang Jesus Loves...
...safety before the force of the airstream loosened his grip. They lowered the rope again, and Flugum tied it around his waist. Then, through a sweating two hours, the crewmen inched Flugum up with rope and static line. Finally he was at the hatch, his elbows almost in. A crewman seized each hand, a third grabbed at his fatigues. Flugum could not help himself, the sweat-slick hands of the rescuers could not hold the unbearable weight. Flugum tumbled down again in the roaring torrent...
...Boeing has been synonymous with big bombers, from World War II's 6-17 to today's 650-m.p.h. B-52. Last week Boeing won a $7,109,195 Air Force production contract-and the promise of more-for a new aircraft calculated to give any bomber crewman the shakes. The craft: Boeing's deadly Bomarc guided missile, whose mission is to knock down atom-bomb-carrying planes like Boeing...