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...seems like gallows humor. The Interstate Commerce Commission reports that five of the nation's 69 major railroads are broke and another 17 are near bankruptcy. Yet among this snarled wreckage, some railroads are making money. None is more profitable than the Norfolk and Western, an operator of freight and commuter lines, mostly in the East, that has $728 million in revenues...
...ancient songs and ballads of England, Scotland and Ireland had survived oral transmission through many illiterate generations, and the mountain man added to these stories and songs about his own life--about coal mining, about the wailing freight trains, about home and family, and about his God. The religion of the mountaineer has been so often misunderstood that it is almost obscure today. The words to a song...
...Peril. Deprived of cargo from the liners' holds, railroads, truckers and import-export dealers have lost millions of dollars. Shipowners, who were already suffering from a worldwide decline in orders (TIME, Aug. 9), found themselves idler than ever. New York Shipping Broker Theofilos Vatis estimates that North Atlantic freight rates for grain have fallen 20% in the past few weeks...
...Heavy Freight. Yet Wonderland is anything but a catalogue of cheap shocks and thrills. It is in fact the author's most ambitious novel-a long and breathless ghost hunt that attempts to confront that elusive subject, human personality. Where does it reside? More important, is it relatively stable or does it change faster than most people dare to think...
Miss Oates' vehicle for this heavy freight is Dr Jesse Vogel, a character who passes through a succession of other characters like a phantom walking through walls. Jesse Vogel resembles Jules in them. He possesses a sense of personal destiny that has been developed by trauma, unusual circumstance and a mysterious, glacial will power...