Word: motorcar
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Cable dies as must have been preordained: a motorcar starts rolling down a sandhill and the frontiersman, dealing with the machine as if it were an unruly stallion, is run down by progress. It is a measure of Peckinpah's great skill that he makes such a mechanical symbolic device not only work but seem perfectly fitting and inevitable...
...wring all the mileage they can from new technology, the railroads are promoting piggyback delivery of truck trailers, adopting computer-controlled operations and bookkeeping, devising special-purpose cars to win back shippers. Multilevel auto-rack cars, for instance, have enabled railroads to regain $100 million of motorcar hauling lost to trucks, while saving automakers $200 million. A few rail lines are even making a bid for passengers. Though two of his routes run parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing...
...year to break even, was falling short of the mark. In Canada, with lower production costs, the make-money sales point was 20,000 cars a year, which ought to have been attainable. But it wasn't. Last week Studebaker announced that it was shutting down its Canadian motorcar assembly lines and would no longer make any cars...
...meeting did Studebaker identify its potential new boss. He is George Wesley Murphy, 61, a onetime used-car salesman who, from his Honolulu base, has amassed a fortune estimated at some $30 million by parlaying a string of auto dealerships into a diversified empire ranging from an Australian motorcar firm to a 23% interest in San Francisco's Union Sugar...
Outside, amid the purple petunias in the new Jacqueline Kennedy Garden was sculpture, including Oronzio Maldarelli's simple bronze nude, Branca II; down on the south lawn was Jason Seley's Masculine Presence, constructed from motorcar bumpers...