Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents' reaction was unusual because the patient was unique: he was Everett Knowles Jr., 13, the Little League pitcher from Somerville whose right arm was torn off by a freight train and sewn back in place at Massachusetts General Hospital. But in this first operation (TIME, June 8), the surgeons rejoined only skin, muscle, bone and blood vessels; they left the all-important nerves until later. In September they rejoined some of the nerves. Whether freckle-faced "Red" Knowles's arm would ever regain its sensation and power could not be foretold...
...casualties needed to win and then go off to a peaceful lunch." He has already raised fares on heavily traveled commuter runs and proposed to scuttle lightly traveled ones. He wants to close 24 obsolescent repair shops (which would eliminate 18,000 jobs), also intends to speed up freight schedules and give major companies their own freight cars in what he calls "the livery of their own choice...
Lines from $1.9 million to $7.2 million, while increased rail freight loadings hiked the earnings of the Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Norfolk & Western. Heading toward its best year since 1957, Chrysler Corp. swung around from last year's third-quarter deficit of $4.8 million to a profit of $3.2 million. In oil, higher sales offset gasoline price wars and led to profit increases of 7% to 42% for Cities Service, Texaco, Socony Mobil, Gulf, Tidewater, Sun and Shell...
Then, and only then, will Andover consider whether the applicant has the $1,800 a year that going there costs. Probably three-fourths of the boys will be able to pay full freight. For the rest, rich Andover will dip into its pockets for scholarships and loans tailored to the boys' needs. Thus will be formed the group of next year's new boys at a school that aims by intensity and excellence...
Died. Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman...