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...limit. Orders for machine tools are backlogged up to 16 months. New England electronics manufacturers report delays of many weeks or months in deliveries of semiconductors, integrated circuits, capacitors and film resistors. Besides the scarcity of men and materials, manufacturers of all kinds complain of shortages of freight cars and ships to move goods...
...Skyhawks found the train in the morning, destroyed three boxcars, damaged 22 others, and reported a large secondary explosion that meant it was carrying ammunition or oil. About an hour later, more Skyhawks hit it with Bullpup missiles and bombs, knocked out the locomotive and four more freight cars, turned the track in front of it to noodles. Before sunset, the whole train was destroyed-and U.S. airmen had carried out 146 separate missions, a record for a single day over North Viet Nam. The record did not stand for long. By week's end, U.S. airmen had racked...
...with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works as an errand boy in a freight company, lives in a furnished garret in Venice, Calif., and is so madly in love with classical music that he seldom remembers how much he longs to fall in love with a girl...
...Puerto Rico hotels fell 25% below normal; some Miami Beach hotels, shops and restaurants were half empty. American Express reported a sharp drop in travel bookings for the fall and winter. California flower growers, source of a quarter of the nation's floral supply, and dependent on air freight to deliver their fragile crop, lost $1,000,000 a week in sales to out-of-state customers...
...acquiring 85% of Holland's West-Friesland Eurotransport, Inc. West-Friesland is losing money-as Taylor predicted it would for at least five years. The other adjustments involved the bankrupt Yale Express System, which was being managed by DC, and West Coast Fast Freight, which is now under DC management...