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...poured some $12 billion into new engines, new tracks and trains, a host of futuristic electronic gadgets. As a result of their increased efficiency, the 113 Class 1 U.S. railroads (more than $3,000,000 annual revenue) have been able to cut their road mileage from 249,000 mi. in 1929 to about 220,000 mi. today, the number of locomotives from 61,300 to 34,000, the number of freight cars from 2,600,000 to 2,000,000, the number of employees from 1,600,000 to 1,000,000. But by getting vastly more work...
...first day of 1957, the Saar-that densely populated, industrially rich, and much fought over 898-sq.-mi. territory on the Franco-German border-became the tenth state in the Federal Republic of West Germany. The Saar's people speak German; its ground is heavy with coal needed by the French. The governments of West Germany and France, hoping "to settle the Saar question in such a way that it will no longer be an issue," agreed on political integration into Germany now, economic integration in three years (economically, the Saarlanders profited more under the French welfare state, with...
...seismologist and upper-atmosphere specialists will dig deep into the antarctic's frozen crust and probe far into its icy, gale-lashed upper atmosphere. While they pursue their specialties, other scientists will be working at six other U.S. bases around the rim of the 5,000,000-sq.-mi. continent. Like the polar scientists of ten other nations now assaulting Antarctica, all are participants in the International Geophysical Year studies of 1957-58. The I.G.Y's objective: a free exchange of the newly gained scientific information among all the nations concerning the world they inhabit...
RENT-FREE LAND for industry is being offered by Montana's Blackfoot Indians on 1,697-sq.-mi. reservation near railroad, highways with ample electric power. Tribe wants to create employment source for 4,200 Blackfeet, now hard-pressed to make a living on their ancestral grounds...
...mi takes an Egyptian child bride as a favor to Napoleon, who dreams of founding a new dynasty and a new race in the Middle East. But the French are halted at Acre, plague decimates their ranks, the fellahin reject Enlightenment for the savage joys of Holy War against the Christian dogs. Napoleon is defeated by fate, and Rémi by Corinne. Author McKenney, who has spent nearly four years in writing Mirage, tells her complicated story in an elliptic, literary shorthand that conveys much information quickly but will be the despair of some readers. Nearly every page...