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Rambunctious Robert Ralph Young and the stodgy Association of American Railroads had long been incompatible. Last week Bob Young finally packed up his three roads (Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette) and left A.A.R.'s house. As he left, he fired a Parthian shot: The A.A.R. "has encouraged . . . noncompetitive practices," thus also encouraged Federal antitrust action. It has fought to perpetuate discriminatory freight rates helpful to the Eastern, bank-run roads which dominate its affairs. "To squeeze the last dollar of revenue from obsolete equipment . . . technological development has been discouraged." To Young, wartime difficulties were not a sufficient excuse...
Judgment. In Manhattan, Thomas Spurlock posed as a deaf-mute, handed cards to passers-by asking for help, got a nickel from one, growled: "Cheapskate," got 60 days...
...Paid in Full. In Detroit, John Sargent found his wife in a bar, shot her dead, gave the bartender a nickel to call the police...
Last week few U.S. citizens got through the week without hearing the melody of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 at least once. Seven recordings of a sugared-to-taste version called Full Moon and Empty Arms were steady jukebox nickel-pullers. The theme was played more or less steadily through two current cinemas (Hollywood's Holiday in Mexico, England's Brief Encounter). Last week, Republic's I've Always Loved You made it three (see CINEMA...
...food situation is just as bad. Used to be you could go into Thompson's and get two eggs, toast and a cup of scalding black coffee for 15?. Now it costs you 35?. Two sinkers and a cup of coffee is up from a nickel to 15?. A plate of beef stew used to sell for a dime: now it costs you 30? and it ain't got no meat...