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...long and bitter battle between the railroads and the truckers, the railroads are making new gains by inducing their opponents to defect. Their weapon: piggybacking, the carrying of freight-loaded truck bodies on railroad flatcars...
...intrinsic comedy been so unforced. Michael had-secretly accumulated a weird library from bookstore trash boxes, and its contents filled his mind, but nothing fitted anything he had to do in the world. Thus, when fired from his first good job as the world's worst railway freight clerk, he spoke that night in his self-taught Gaelic to a Gaelic League meeting on the character of Goethe. In short, a hopeless case. If ever a man became a writer because there was nothing else in the world he could do, it was Frank O'Connor...
Significant Difference. For the second straight week, department store sales climbed; across the nation, they rose 26% over a year ago, when 1960's heavy blizzards helped to cut sales. Freight car loadings, an indicator of general economic activity, rose 7% above the preceding week, and the Association of American Railroads saw the beginning of a gradual upturn. A new survey of businessmen's plans for plant and equipment spending showed that in the year's second half they intend to reverse the gradual decline in spending. For the year as a whole, they will cut their...
...HAVEN BANKRUPTCY was recommended for the deficit-ridden railroad by an ICC examiner and a committee of prominent New England businessmen. The examiner said the road's commuter lines should be run by state agencies, leaving it with only freight business and token passenger service...
...Chinese refugees fleeing into Macao reported that food rations in China are so scanty that "even the birds would find it hard to survive." Worried Hong Kong Chinese are shipping more than 100,000 lbs. of food daily to relatives on the mainland. Peking is urgently seeking freight space to import 330,000 tons of wheat from Australia, 350,000 tons of rice from Burma and 120,000 tons of barley from Canada...