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Already the promise of piggybacking has sparked new life in the railroad-equipment industry. General Motors' Electro-Motive Division has designed a special flatcar, 75 ft. long and capable of carrying two trailers, v. one for present cars. The G.M. car can be loaded from the side by means of a forklift, thus making for quicker and more flexible handling than the old-fashioned "circus loading," by which trailers were rolled up a ramp at the end of the car. American Car & Foundry, Bethlehem Steel, Pressed Steel Car and others are ready to manufacture piggyback equipment, and Pullman-Standard...
...American G.I. Because of her flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling coffin, even the cries of the children should pass undetected. Just to make sure, however, Bedrich planned to keep...
...Aboard. One day last month, using some faulty loadings in the past as an excuse, Boss Marian sent his workers home and announced that he personally was going to load the next flatcar. At dusk, carrying their drugged children, their tools, their tar paper, the oxygen tank, some food, water, and the inevitable bottle of slivovitz, Bedrich and his daughter-in-law Drahomira climbed into the space Marian had left in the lumber. Marian followed, pulling some boards over his head. As the train pulled out for Trieste, the men went to work lining their tiny stateroom with...
...Cechs thought they had been discovered. Their horror was soon dwarfed by the realization that they had no more water. Their throats parched with the salty salami, the children cried piteously. "It was the most terrible experience of my life," said grandfather Cech later. For three days the flatcar lay on a siding near the Czechoslovak border. At last Bedrich decided for the sake of the children to give himself up. The family tumbled out of the car, he said later, "like dead flies, cramped and almost too weak to stand." Marian irritably scolded his wife for being clumsy. Drahomira...
...Police of Carteret, N.J., notified that four steel-enclosed radium pellets worth $200,000 had vanished from a flatcar at a local boiler works, wasted no time hunting down the criminals. Observing a kids' shack near by, they checked schools and churches, found that three boys had lifted the valuable pellets, thinking they were fishing sinkers. To the cops' relief, the boys had hidden the boodle under a sidewalk almost immediately, thus escaping possible lethal radiation burns...