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After four years of knee-and-gouge legal battle with the U.S. long-haul trucking industry. 24 Eastern railroads emerged last week with a black eye that is likely to remain visible for some time. In Philadelphia, Federal District Judge Thomas
...Clary Jr. ruled that the railroads violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by engaging in "one large, ever-growing conspiracy" to destroy the competition of long-haul trucks. He awarded only nominal damages of 18? each to 37 trucking companies, but said he would award additional damages plus attorneys' fees and court costs to the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. He invited the truckers to draw up an injunction for the court to issue to curb the rails' anti-truck campaign. Wrote Judge Clary, in an acid 200-page decision: "There is a strong possibility that the defendants are ready...
Strauss sent a driver to haul the reluctant general back, explained in equally tough terms that he himself often had to wait half an hour or more for his boss, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and thought nothing of it. Then Strauss, who has a flair for the dramatic gesture to point a moral, sacked General Müller-Hillebrand and gave a one-word explanation of his action: "Insubordination." German newspapers seemed delighted...
Under the elaborate scheme worked out by Eaton and Krupp, ships would move into Hopes Advance Bay during the four-month ice-free season each summer, haul the pelletized ore to Rotterdam, where it will be transferred to barges and towed up the Rhine to German steel mills. By great circle routes. Hopes Advance Bay is almost as close to Rotterdam (2,570 miles) as it is to Philadelphia (2,245 miles...
...PLANE ORDER will soon be awarded by United Air Lines, which will replace its short-haul fleet of 54 piston-engine Convairs with turboprops or jets at cost of about $150 million. Company is leaning toward Lockheed's 410-m.p.h. Electra turboprop...