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...track bed below him. He concentrates on the cord in his hand; he must remember to pull it when the countdown reaches five. One last breath to last him for the ride, then he is off. "It's like being assaulted in the rear by a fast freight train...
...trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million a year in fuel and maintenance. Fifty Class I railroads today are without a single steam engine...
...marching by. Kane (pronounced Connie) is the fattest member of the band. Last year, after a vacation and a carefree feast of poi,* Peter waddled back to band practice fatter than ever. He measured 5 ft. 7 in. vertically, 4 ft. 8 in. around the middle, and tipped the freight scales at 355 glorious pounds. Eying the statistics, the city's physician decided that it was just too risky for Peter to continue his work. Marching in parades, welcoming incoming ocean liners, or just climbing the steps to the bandstand in Kapiolani Park, he said, might tax Peter...
...first time since the day in 1934 when McCormick ordered radical new simplified spelling, the Trib was going back to some old spelling rules. Instead of such words as frate, grafic, tarif, soder and sofisticated, the Trib will now use freight, graphic, tarif, solder and sophisticated, just like everybody else. Still unchanged are the Colonel's spellings of such words as thoro, burocratic and altho...
...Between June 30 and July 13, shortly before the investigation began, 40 new grants were issued, covering $47,768,434 worth of new plants.) The committee was not impressed by the way railroads have been using the write-offs; it concluded that instead of expanding the size of their freight-car fleets, the roads have been using the write offs merely to replace old equipment. West Virginia's Representative Robert Mollohan, subcommittee chairman, noted that from Jan. 1, 1950 to June 1, 1955, Class I railroads (those with annual revenues of at least $1,000,000) bought...