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...business that is also growing in such low-pay spots as Hong Kong and Mexico. Foreign countries have grabbed half of the domestic movie-camera market, and all but two U.S. manufacturers (Kodak and Bell & Howell) have dropped out of the picture. Cummins now sells most of the diesel-engine output of its British plant in the U.S., while all of RCA's tape recorders and 80% of General Electric loudspeakers are made in Japan. Other advantages of U.S. industry are gradually fading. The growth of the Common Market, for example, gives the world another region where economies...
...Williamsport, Pa., one day last week, two diesel locomotives hummed slowly toward each other. When they were close enough, smiling crewmen leaned across the gap and shook hands. Trainmen from the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central were plainly delighted that after a decade of proposition and opposition their lines had finally been formally merged with the permission of a federal court in New York. As far as the railroads were concerned, it was about time...
...downhill as well as up. The biggest challenge is laying the pipeline, which will cost Texaco and Gulf about $50 million. Machete-wielding workers are helicoptered into the jungle to clear the land for the disassembled bulldozers that follow. Then pipe is dropped in. Four 3,600-h.p. diesel pumping stations are being constructed to boost the oil up the mountain...
...systematic collection and classification of submarine "signatures"-the distinctive electronic blend of propeller and engine noises, wake turbulence and magnetic fields generated by each individual sub. Thanks to Pueblo & Co., the Navy has nearly completed a computer-taped "library" classifying Russia's 450 or more subs, from diesel-powered Whiskey-class boats to the new, nuclear Juliett class. In the near future, U.S. naval commanders will be able to draw instant digital readouts that will identify any Soviet sub they can hear...
More than 3,000 major merger problems have been discussed. One of the first projects was to take an inventory of all the equipment on both roads, from diesel engines down to dining-car flatware. A unified purchasing system for 180,000 kinds of hardware should save $750,000 a year. Altogether, eventual savings from combined operations should be at least $80 million a year. Plans have been made to eliminate about 1,000 miles of duplicate tracks, and computers were called into service to help decide upon the best routes. With a choice of two main lines from Chicago...