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Caesar and Wickman began gobbling up or buying into bus lines all over the country with cash from stock sales and from railroads farsighted enough to see that bus routes could take over unprofitable train runs and serve as feeder lines...
...operating a helicopter service between Brussels, Bonn, Lille, Maastricht and Rotterdam. Helicopter services are carrying passengers and mail in and around New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment the suburban bus as well, and they are dutifully planning heliports to accommodate the new airborne traffic...
...risks and small profits. For example, an 800-lb. grass-fed steer that costs the cattleman $160 to raise, and formerly sold at a nice profit, today usually sells for only $128. To get the cattleman's steer ready for market, and possibly make a $25 profit, a feeder must stuff it with corn for three to nine months. But to the packer who buys it weighing 1,100 Ibs. the steer represents only 660 Ibs. of salable meat. Once, such byproducts as the hide, tallow, blood, offal and stomach were very profitable. But today their prices are down...
Ever since ex-Air Force Major William F. Long founded Dallas' Pioneer Airlines in 1946, the busy, ambitious feeder line has grown like a Texas steer. Starting with six surplus Douglas DC-3s, Pioneer began by shuttling oilmen from west Texas oilfields to Dallas and Houston, soon built its fleet up to 13 DC-3s and its route to 21 cities in Texas and New Mexico. In 1950, moneymaking Pioneer flew more passenger-miles (37 million) and carried more mail than any of the nation's 14 other local service lines...
...Scorer & Feeder. In a game where human skyscrapers usually grab the spotlight, the little O'Briens (5 ft. 9 in., 160 Ibs.) are a refreshing exception. Johnny is the scorer, Ed the "feeder." Playing on a team that specializes in an all-out "fire-horse" offense, Johnny is able to score with every kind of shot-hooks, jumps, tip-ins, lay-ups-and equally well with both hands. When Johnny is "double-teamed," i.e., when the defense guards him with two men, Ed, a deadeye long-range shooter, pops in baskets from the outside...