Word: inde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gary, Ind., General Railway Signal Co. installed the nation's first fully automated freight-car yard for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. By using radar and electronic brain circuits, the system sorts out and assembles freight cars by destination, automatically weighs them and controls their speed as they roll down an incline to assembly points, where they are coupled into trains. General Railway Signal is now installing similar systems in six other yards...
...jaded intellectualism" of most modern poets, called instead for "instances of beauty that make mankind feel well and hopeful about life." Died. August S. Duesenberg, 75, builder (with his brother Fred) of the famed luxury automobiles and racers that bore his name; of a heart ailment; in Camby, Ind. First manufactured in 1911. the Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette and high-powered motor (325 h.p. with supercharger, 265 h.p. without...
Highland, Ind...
...back of the Red-led union in the farm-equipment industry. U.A.W. claims some 19,000 Harvester workers, v. 9,000 for the U.E. The U.A.W. also thinks that it is a sure winner in another contest this week with U.E. for 600 workers at Harvester's Richmond (Ind.) plant. Said a triumphant U.A.W. organizer: "They'll be coming in so fast we'll have to bar the door...
...JOHN HOLMES Rockville, Ind...