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...York and New Jersey, the center will house anyone and anything connected with world trade: U.S. Bureau of Customs, customs brokers, freight forwarders, foreign consulates, exporters and importers, trade associations, chambers of commerce, banks, insurance firms and finance agencies, now scattered blindly about the city. There will be trade fairs, steamship, air, truck and rail carriers, foreign trade publications, commodity exchanges, a hotel, shops, restaurants, a world trade institute and library, and a bewildering assortment of information agencies. Yamasaki will do the design, while the Manhattan firm of Emery Roth & Sons - an office noted more for its concern for costs...
With $232 million in loans from the C. & O. and its bankers, the B. & O. plans over the next five years to repair 9,000 old freight cars, buy 18,000 new ones, enlarge tunnels that are now too small to accommodate profitable piggyback traffic, improve its yards, and buy additional automated rail controls. Though the two roads plan to keep separate their rates, routes and sales forces, they will consolidate ticket offices and terminals in cities from Chicago to Washington. Best estimate of able B. & O. President Jervis Langdon, 57, is that all this will save...
...dirge for riverboating turns out to be greatly exaggerated. Today the 29,000 miles of rivers, canals and intracoastal passages that constitute the U.S. Inland Waterways System are churning as never before. While railroads and airlines make more noise fighting one another, the inland waterways' share of U.S. freight traffic has climbed from 3% to almost 10% in the last 15 years. This past year, for the first time in U.S. history, river barges carried more Midwestern grain to export ports than the railroads...
...gallon fuel tax on users of the waterways, which have hitherto been toll free. The rivermen are even more upset over a threat from the nation's railroads, which whenever they run parallel to barge traffic are required by federal law to charge 6% more for freight than the barges. Arguing that federal maintenance of the waterways amounts to a subsidy to barge operators, the railroads have asked ICC permission to match barge prices on bulk shipment...
...brother's World War I cavalry saber. "I took his sword and humbled it," she muses, "scraped muck from mouldings, rust from behind benches, dug holes for my plants. It was too awkward for peeling potatoes." Her rebellion comes when she tries to thrust herself into the freight cars full of Jews bound for Auschwitz-to call them to the attention of fellow townsfolk, who have chosen to ignore what is going on. Böll's point: in an insane world, sanity is madness. Duly confined to an asylum, Faehmel's mother at last recognizes...