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...TIME is to be congratulated on the very excellent article; however, the statement is made that "electronic brains made by International Business Machines will sort, classify, route and guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically." This is not correct, as all the equipment installed at the Conway Yard, which controls freight cars in this automatic manner, was developed and manufactured by the Union Switch & Signal Division of Westinghouse Air Brake Co. A. M. WIGGINS Vice President and General Manager Union Switch & Signal Division Swissvale...
...turn its 74-year-old Conway yard near Pittsburgh into the nation's most modern electronic freight system, handling 9,000 cars daily from remote-control panels. Electronic brains made by International Business Machines will sort, classify, route and guide all freight cars from an inclined switching hump to their proper tracks automatically; electronic signals will operate all switches; electronic scales will record each car's weight; radar-operated speed retarders will check the car's wheels to be sure that each coupling is made at precisely the proper speed. Saving to the Pennsy...
...help; by the time both his men and his superiors were fully alerted, the Chinese had overrun half his battered outpost. The question shot up the chain of command to casualty-conscious headquarters in Tokyo: Did the U.S. want to pay the price for holding Pork Chop, a barren hump of Korean ground only 150 yards across...
...Over the Hump. Next day Nixon was not only sick, but woozy from the flood of antibiotics. Dr. Todd began shooting him full of vitamins, but Nixon was still able to deliver only 16 minutes of his Oklahoma City speech. Filling in briefly for him after that was his wife and campaign companion, Pat Nixon, who made up in charm what her talk lacked in high-flown political oratory. Said Pat: "We're very willing to work night and day and to join with you in trying-in our attempt-to elect our great President and in working...
...regained partial consciousness and this week was well on the way to recovery. Analyses of the fluid will show how much barbiturate was removed by dialysis: similar trials with artificial kidneys have shown that removal of only 10% to 15% might be enough to get a patient over the hump...