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...million for the Virginian; $43.5 million for the N. & W.), they duplicated one another to the point where the two lines were not, in ICC's words, "in the public interest." Merged, they will economize by consolidating managements and by using the Virginian's better tracks eastward over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Virginian's coal piers and marshaling yard adjacent to the Norfolk Navy Base will probably be put up for sale. Estimated saving from the elimination of duplicate facilities and services: $1,000,000 per month...
...left behind when North and South America broke away from Europe and Africa, and the chasm between them widened to form the Atlantic. The ridge reflects the shape of the shores on both sides of it, and it emphasizes the remarkable fact that if the New World were pushed eastward, it would fit with some precision into the western shore of the Old World...
...into town. It took them 1 hr. 40 min. Church bells pealed, car horns honked, railroad whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich, 21 years before; northward lay the black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed...
...break came in 1952, before the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Warren, as he led the California convention eastward by train, had high hopes that he might get the presidential nomination through an Eisenhower-Taft deadlock. (He had been Tom Dewey's running mate in 1948.) Nixon, though pledged with the California delegation to Warren for President, was an active Eisenhower advocate who had also talked privately about the vice presidency with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower...
...move faster than their surface counterparts. One such discovery came in 1951, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent a ship west of the Galapagos Islands to experiment with a Japanese technique of fishing for deep-swimming tuna. The scientists were surprised to see the fish lines drifting eastward while their ship was carried westward on the well-known equatorial surface current. The next year the Service's Townsend Cromwell established the reason: a hitherto unsuspected current, deep below the surface current and moving in the opposite direction. Later investigation revealed that the Cromwell Current is a tremendous...