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...Steel executives and union representatives, who rarely meet except at the bargaining table, got together in Washington at the urging of United Steelworkers President David McDonald to discuss ways "to get idle steelmaking facilities and idle steelworkers back to work." The two sides came to no agreement. Railroad freight carloadings, continuing to feel the pinch in steel, were down 13.2% in the last reported week, and shippers predicted that they will fall 5.1% in the first quarter below the year-ago level...
...below 1959's $12 million. Castro's economic agents talked big deals, but so far have signed few contracts. A U.S. embassy official looked into reports that U.S. wheeler-dealers were sending embargoed goods to Canada, then transshipping them via the U.S. in sealed freight cars to the Havana railway ferry at West Palm Beach, Fla. He reported back that "not a single provable case has turned...
...which earned $37,994,000 in the first eleven months of 1960 and has paid a dividend for all years except two since 1899, intends to pump money into the B. & O. system for a badly needed modernization program, will repair or replace the B. & O.'s worn freight cars. All told, Tuohy expects the merger ultimately to save the two lines $46 million a year...
...ailroad freight carloadings rose slightly over the previous week, though they remain 9.9% below the same week last year...
Just after his 21st birthday Clark Gable joined a touring theatrical company called the Jewell Players, stayed with the group until it collapsed some months later in Butte, Mont. He had 26?. Hopping a freight, he took a gelid ride to the Pacific Northwest, piled logs, sold neckties, became a telephone repairman. One of the last phones he fixed was at the theater of the Red Lantern Players, where Josephine Dillon, then in her late thirties,, was the resident stage director. She taught him diction, projection and carriage, and married him when...