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Harbor Lights straggled in from New Haven or Peoria or someplace at the beginning of the week, and the management has promised it will straggle out by early Sunday morning...
...these circumstances may be, they are, ostensibly at least, impossible to alleviate. The problem is compounded by alumni requests for seats and by a seriously undermanned and cramped distribution staff. The Old Grads have to request their tickets seventeen days before the game, in order for Joe Alumn in Peoria to have his stubs by the Monday preceeding the game. Precessing these orders, in addition to requests from graduate students, occupies a week of Frank Lunden's seven-man-team's time...
...Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman, 42. Less than two years ago, he won a proxy fight for control of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, has since boosted earnings per share 14% to $2.35. He is also trying to outbid the Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania for little Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, a main bypass around Chicago for transcontinental freight. Last week Heineman announced that he is after a much bigger prize: the long (7,870 miles) and longtime ailing Chicago & North Western Railway, which runs from Chicago to Lander...
Into the rail station at Peoria, Ill. last week slithered the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's answer to the annual $700 million deficit of U.S. passenger trains: the Jet Rocket, a light, low train modeled after the Spanish Talgo. Built by ACF Industries, Inc., it is the first of the new lightweight trains to be owned by a U.S. railroad. It begins regular Chicago-Peoria passenger runs this week...
...train, with a General Motors diesel locomotive, cost $788,000, with a per-seat cost of $2,300 v. $3,800 for conventional cars. The steel and aluminum train weighs 451,000 Ibs., slightly over half the 807,000 Ibs. of Rock Island's 20-year-old Peoria Rocket. Thus, the locomotive need develop only 1,200 h.p. v. 2,000 h.p. for conventional engines, makes the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run on $10 worth of fuel, one-third the standard amount...