Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sister of Army Wife Mamie Doud Eisenhower. In 1942 Moore entered the Army, rose from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in the Quartermaster Corps, returned to civilian life in 1951 "to make money." Occupation since then: a roving man-about-business. with varied interests in Carribbean green sugar, U.S. freight airlines, a shipyard in Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, etc. Last week George Gordon Moore appeared voluntarily before the House subcommittee, made some of his financial records available, insisted convincingly that he had never used the Eisenhowers to help his business fortunes-"No. sir!" After getting a clean...
Another encouraging sign comes from railroaders, who reported that freight car-loadings, which had one of the worst slides, may have hit bottom. Though car-loadings for the year are still 17.5% below 1957, railroaders attribute at least part of the trouble to winter snows that tied up Eastern lines during February, and note a small but definite uptrend so far in March. A second hint that companies may start ordering soon: during a walkout at Aluminum Co. of America's Alcoa (Tenn.) plant late in January, General Electric Co. got a court order after four days to enter...
...Excise taxes, which have outlived their wartime purpose to discourage use of scarce material and transportation, are certain to be slashed. Likely targets: the manufacturers' auto excise tax, which adds $150-$200 to the cost of an auto (manufacturers say they will pass on the savings); the 3% freight transportation tax; the coal and oil transportation tax; retail taxes on such "luxury" items as leather, cosmetics. Government loss: $1 billion...
Perhaps because the disturbed tissues were swollen, the duct at first carried no saliva. But when Dougherty heard and smelled the lunch wagon, the flow was copious. Says Dougherty, a former railroad freight handler who has been unable to work for five years: "My eye watered so much I had to put a towel on my lap. But when the watering stopped, I could see the food." From having been able to distinguish only light from dark, Dougherty developed 20/200 vision-enough for him to travel alone to the hospital last week for a checkup. His vision is expected...
Today Aeroflot is actually Soviet Russia's civil air ministry. Besides hauling passengers and freight, it carries out a massive program of crop dusting and sowing; it runs meteorological and oil-pipeline surveys, organizes flying clubs, maintains all nonmilitary airports and directs two colleges which train pilots and ground technicians. It is difficult to tell where the Red air force leaves off and Aeroflot begins. Bossing it is onetime Air Force Commander in Chief (1950-57) Chief Air Marshal Pavel Zhigarev, 60. veteran pilot and bomber expert who got the airline job a year...