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...strike by 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists grounded carriers that fly 61½% of all U.S. airline passenger-miles, carry 70% of the nation's air mail, 73% of its air freight. At the behest of the Civil Aeronautics Board, six other trunk carriers and 13 regional airlines feverishly reshuffled schedules and added what extra flights they could to meet the demand for seats...
...reasons are several. Competition from abroad has eased, as U.S. steelmakers have improved their production techniques. Other steel consumers have moved in where autos used to reign. Example: Railroads plan to build 90,-000 new freight cars this year, against about 65,000 in 1965. In smaller measure, the steel industry is benefiting from an all-out drive to use its products as substitutes for copper, in everything from plumbing to refrigerator tubing. Reason: copper prices have been driven sky-high by copper-rich countries, such as Chile and Zambia, cashing in on a world shortage...
...acres of industrial sites scattered along its right of way. >Menk cut paper work by ordering 419 forms discontinued, including one that took five hours to prepare and was then promptly filed and forgotten, has also trimmed 1,200 employees from the payroll, shifted others. >To regulate freight-car movements more efficiently, the Burlington is leasing an IBM 360 computer, is also building a $6,500,000 private microwave system to speed computer data between Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul...
...Menk ordered the Burlington's railroad police to forget about chasing hobos, concentrate instead on reducing freight damage; monthly damage claims have since dropped...
...Train, the escape is initially from invading Nazis. A diffident, dutiful French shopkeeper hustles his pregnant wife and daughter into the first-class carriage of a refugee train, himself crawls into an overcrowded freight car, and settles down contentedly to escape his dull, daily round. Contentment is compounded when a forlorn Jewish girl beds down with him. When his family gets lost in the wartime shuffle, the lovers happily play house in a refugee reception center until the missing wife and child are found. Then the lovers part. Many months later, fleeing the Gestapo, the girl timidly hunts...