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Shuttle Services has no plans to purchase the new model to replace its aging fleet. Even though the old models suffer from a bouncy suspension and antiquated styling, this new bus will not be a viable substitute. Priced at $220,000 for a used vehicle, this new model simply can't compete with the economically priced current model, which retails in the $70,000 range...
...Enterprise and the battleship Missouri: model kits as cookie-cutterish as the ships they represented. American naval vessels seemed mass produced - Yorktown-class carriers, Iowa-class battleships, Portland-class cruisers. Credit Henry Ford for the assembly lines that won the war. But blame him for the blandness of the fleet. What was the difference between the Enterprise and the Yorktown? The Iowa and the Missouri? None that I could see from the Revell kits they sold at my local hobby shop...
...first Amtrak train left New York's Penn station. And from that moment on, the company never stopped losing money, expanding its fleet to include 260 trains serving 512 stations scattered across all but five states. Granted, since its inception, Amtrak has raked in more than $24 billion in federal subsidies, which sounds like an awful lot of money but which is actually just enough to keep the company?s hopes alive without committing absolutely to its salvation. It's divided between trains making long journeys, such as our Florida jaunt, and those making relatively short hauls, such...
Waddle pushed his crew hard. Under him the Greeneville became the envy of the Pacific Submarine Fleet. This was why the Navy chose it to play host to civilians on the Distinguished Visitor Program. Commander Reid Tanaka, who was captain of the U.S.S. Charlotte, a sister submarine to the Greeneville, said he saw himself in "friendly competition" with Waddle. "I would look at his ship and think that if I could get my crew to do some of the things his crew would do--boy, that would be great...
Waddle earned the absolute trust of his crew, and had the highest re-enlistment rate--65%--of any attack sub in the Pacific Fleet. And the skipper proudly allowed re-enlisters to commemorate their return in almost any fashion they wanted. Be it parachuting out of an airplane or floating in full dive gear in the ocean, Waddle would be along for the rite of passage...