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Transcontinental rail passengers have finally been granted the privilege a pig has; they will not have to change trains in Chicago. Under the needling of Chesapeake & Ohio's Bob Young ("a hog can cross the country without changing trains, but you can't"), seven major roads* teamed up to start through-sleeper service this week between New York, Washington and Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through Trains at Last | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Behind the closed doors of the House Military Affairs Committee room, the Big Three of the U.S. Army hammered urgently at a well-worn fact: until Congress makes up its mind, U.S. military men are hog-tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - NATIONAL DEFENSE: Waiting | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...bridal bouquet. Particularly annoying has been his constant buzzing in the public's ear about the horse & buggy way of running transcontinental trains so that passengers must change at Chicago. Last week he was at it again in full-page newspaper ads(see cut): "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: No Stop at Chicago | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

After Due Reflection. In Panama City, Fla., M. H. Pitts put a mirror in front of his solitary pig, happily watched it eat like a hog to keep up with its double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Beasts of the World, Unite! Farmer Jones had a good farm, but he drank too much. One night, by the mystic operations of the historical dialectic, a leftist political theoretician appeared among his farm animals. He was old Major, a prize Middle White hog. Major addressed the other creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dictatorship of the Animals | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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