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...Giant United Airlines wants to buy 75% stock ownership in Mexico's twelve-year-old, 1,700-mile Lineas Aereas Mineras, which flies from the U.S. border to Mexico City, other points. Control of L.A.M.S.A. would give United a feeder line into Mexico, put it in a good spot to hop into air-minded South America...
...Angeles is the home of perhaps the most extraordinary factory feeder: the Anderson Boarding & Supply Co., which calls itself "the biggest subsistence contractor in the world." It serves some 40,000 meals a day from Salton Sea (246 ft. below sea level) to Climax, Colo. (11,320 ft. above) and in many cases houses them too (total cost: $1.75 a day; $1.50 for meals, 25? for rooms). Founded by railroad-camp Flunky William Lancelot ("Billy") Anderson 30 years ago (when he was the first Westerner to provide fresh sheets and milk to camp workers...
...Boston's Crotty Bros, is probably the largest factory feeder anywhere, with almost 500,000 workers in 68 corporations from Maine to Florida and west to Des Moines daily eating out of its hand. This year Crotty expects to gross $15,000,000 (v. $9,500,000 in 1941), though its president Andrew Crotty says that its profits are still figured "in pennies...
...Chicago's up & coming Canteen Food Service, less than three years in the business, is already grossing $2,500,000 a year. Business is terrific for factory feeders, but so are their headaches: high prices, labor problems, food shortages and equipment and maintenance shortages. These make caterers' chief peacetime problems-practical jokers and snitchers-seem almost academic. But at least one big factory feeder still remembers with horror the day when a workman slipped some potassium cyanide he had pinched from the production line into some of its sandwiches. Before the "joke" was discovered, one man had died...
...They have other schemes too. In Kansas City, a staggered work-hour scheme is calculated to give the Kansas City Public Service Co. the equivalent of 42 new busses; Indianapolis Railways (controlling all local transportation) has slashed the number of stops 40% to 2,700, dropped or shortened seven feeder lines to boot. The Cleveland Transit System recently hitched 31-passenger trailers to regular busses. In Washington, transit bigwigs tested a new device: the "standsit" seat. Spaced ten to 14 inches closer than regular seats, they will increase bus and trolley seating capacity...