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...enthusiastically figure out their own budgets; only a few of them seek advice. (Since 1949, the U.S. Government Printing Office has distributed only 35,000 copies of its pamphlet Guiding Family Spending.) But most of them, also, soon change their minds, particularly when their incomes increase. Says one Santa Fe housewife: "We tried a budget when we were first married, but it was too much trouble. We decided to just go ahead and get what we have to, and somehow pay the bills when they come...
ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE, which lopped off all passenger trains to Santa Fe, N. Mex. in the '30s, will take coaches off the run to Atchison, Kans. (pop. 12,792) if the Kansas Corporation Commission gives its O.K. Then Topeka will be the last city in the company title to be a passenger stop...
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...SANTA FE RAILROAD, longest in the U.S. (TIME, May 23), will expand again. For $9,963,000 the Santa Fe bought 73,800 shares (82%) of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad from the estate of George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...
...college. Goodie went to work as a single jacker in a Nevada mine, pounding out blast holes with a sledgehammer ("Very good for the shoulders,'' says Goodie) and saved enough money to enter Stanford University. During other college summers, he shoveled coke for the Santa Fe ("Very good for the arms") and drove a delivery truck. At Stanford, doing what came naturally, he quickly became a big man on campus. "He was the eternal sophomore," says Fellow Alumnus Earl Behrens, who became the San Francisco Chronicle's political pundit and a close friend of the governor...