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United Air Lines this week was forced to ground its six DC-6Bs, the line's biggest and fastest planes, and lop 9,300 miles off its normal 188,000 miles of flying schedules. Reason: the pilots would not fly them unless they got extra...
...Friden Calculating Machine Co. has developed a mechanical calculator which, for the first time, can do such tricks as extracting the square root of a ten-digit number in nine seconds without the help of printed tables. The machine (about the size of a large typewriter) will lop many man-hours off complicated calculations needed for guided missiles, gun sights, aircraft, etc. Price: about...
...casually as a switching engineman shunting a string of milk cars into a siding, the Pennsylvania Railroad announced last week that it will lop 40 passenger trains off its schedules, effective July 8. Twenty-five commuter trains will be dropped from Philadelphia's heavily traveled Main Line and other suburban areas; long-distance service in & out of Pittsburgh will be reduced by seven trains, and cuts will be made on trains going into Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore and Buffalo. The Pennsy's explanation was curt and businesslike: it is losing money on passenger traffic and thinks that...
...Secretary Joseph Short angrily denounced an article by Daniels in Collier's which would do Harry Truman no good with Congress. In it, Daniels attributed to the President some recommendations for reforming Congress. Most notable: limiting tenure to twelve years. Daniels pointed out that such a limitation would lop off such Democratic pillars as Speaker Sam Rayburn, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Texas' Senator Tom Connally and Virginia's Harry Byrd...
Eliot has swamped most of its opponents by lop-sided scores. The most recent was a 26 to 7 drubbing of the Deacons. Earlier in the season, backfield stars like Riley Gilbert, Roger Pugh, and passer Charles Cabot led the Elephants to a 33 to 0 victory over Adams...