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...slaughterhouses have moved out), Chicago remains a mercantile and industrial center for the nation. Its wholesale and retail trade runs better than $33 billion a year. The city handles more freight cars daily-26,000-than New York and St. Louis combined, boasts terminals for 20 rail lines. Its motor arteries are clogged by 800,000 truck trips daily. Its McCormick Place is the nation's biggest convention hall, plays host to organizations that spend more than $200 million a year in Chicago. Its share of the gross national product is $28.7 billion. Its steadily climbing industrial capacity...
...raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful supply of motor vehicles, gasoline, trained vehicle operators, food to sustain the workers, farmers to plan the new crops, crops to plant, and sufficient farming equipment. Willard F. Libby presupposes another set of circumstances when he writes, "In particular, during wartime...
...closest love was supposed to be her horse Geronimo, and Erik spent most of his time with a tiny red Saab. Still they kept bumping into each other on all the Motor Rally routes from Monte Carlo to Africa. In Helsinki, Pat Moss, 28, Britain's top woman driver and sister of Ace Driver Stirling Moss, announced her engagement to king-sized (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.) Swedish Champ Erik Carlsson, 33, twice winner of the Monte Carlo Rally. Though they have yet to fix the date-"very busy driving"-they firmly denied suggestions they might form...
...Aero Commander and Lear. Britain's entry is the De Havilland DH-125. France's Dassault plans to introduce its twin-jet Mystère 20 in the spring; Hamburger Flugzeugbau is making a six-passenger plane; and Italy's Piaggio, maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, has teamed up with Douglas Aircraft to build the PD-808, known as the "Vespa...
Many of the autos parked outside the Philadelphia headquarters of Philco Corp. these days are new Fords. Ever since Ford Motor Co. took over Philco 15 months ago, Philco's workers, as new members of the Ford family, have happily taken advantage of Ford's employee discount. Other signs of Ford's presence at Philco are less visible, but far more dramatic. The marriage of Ford's money and management to Philco's scientific knowledge has given once-faltering Philco new strength...