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...addition, Caesar has spent half a million dollars building an experimental double-decker bus, the first for long haul, express runs. Worked out with Designer Loewy, it will be only 18 inches higher than present buses and no longer. But the tricky new seat arrangement will permit 13 more passengers to be carried, 50 v. 37 in present buses. It also has a washroom, toilet, water cooler, may even carry a hostess. The driver sits in a special clearview compartment between the two decks. It will start on its shakedown cruises this summer. If the trial runs suit Caesar...
...first major step towards marketing these vast resources (estimated potential: up to 26 billion bbls.), Aramco last week awarded contracts for the biggest and costliest pipeline in oil history. Straddling the Middle East for a distance of some 1,000 miles, the 30-inch pipe will shortcut the long haul by tanker from fields on the Persian Gulf to ports in the Mediterranean. It will cost some $100,000,000, will deliver up to 370,000 bbls. of crude oil a day, some 60,000 more than Big Inch (TIME...
...series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses his comedy style to give moviegoers something funny and at the same time touching. It's a long haul between laughs in the first attraction at the U.T. and for those who don't like Adolph Menjon well enough to sweat out the trek. "The Showoff" starts...
Collector's Items. In Paris, police needed six trucks to haul away the odds & ends (including some granite statues, a park bench, 139 wigs, two dozen ice skates for the left foot) amassed over 15 years by Kleptomaniac Robert Bury...
...Towing & Transportation Co., Inc. chartered the powerful, war-built tugs from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will use them to pull two tin-mining dredges from Miami through the Panama Canal to the Netherlands Indies for the Netherlands Government. To shrewd President Moran, the job is more than a pay haul across the Pacific. It will give him a chance to gauge his financial chances of beating the Dutch at their own game, at their expense, before the Dutch and British get their deep-sea tugs operating again, full steam...