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SANTA FE RAILROAD, longest in the U.S. (TIME, May 23), will expand again. For $9,963,000 the Santa Fe bought 73,800 shares (82%) of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad from the estate of George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...
Thanks to a Hungarian D.P. who had stopped by for a few games at the Bauern-Lola before he made his way to the U.S. Kronach found its new opponents in Peoria. Ill. There, Distillery Foreman Henry Cramer listened to Kronach's ambassador and wrote to Bavaria suggesting an international match to be carried on by mail. Each town fielded a 21-man team, with each member carrying on two games at the same time...
That was in the spring of 1951. Foreman Cramer, as Peoria's playing secretary, kept up a monumental correspondence with Alfred Joanni manager of a Kronach porcelain factory and the only man in the Kronach club who spoke English. For four years, the international airmail match ground on. Although each letter was vitally concerned with the progress of 42 chess games Joanni and Cramer managed to mix in some gossip, too. "We got to know the families and troubles of partners across the ocean." says Joanni. ''Pictures were exchanged. When one of the Americans died...
...Bavarian solicitude, Peoria could not stay the course. Last week, with Kronach ahead 23-18, Peoria's W. E. McCraw, last American left in the match, was faced with a passed pawn and a hopelessly cramped position. Reluctantly, he resigned. This month, as a token of friendship, Kronach's citizens will present a porcelain trophy of two chess players to the officer in charge of U.S. forces stationed there...
...duty tractors and earthmovers has been developed by Los Angeles' Garret Corp. Like a turbosupercharger on a plane, Garrett's device captures hot exhaust gases to drive a turbine, which in turn drives air into the cylinder, increasing combustion and power. Primarily developed for Caterpillar Tractor of Peoria, Ill., the supercharger reportedly boosts heavy-duty diesel-engine output by 50%, trebles the tractor's work capacity. Airesearch next plans to adapt the turbosuperchargers to smaller diesel engines, such as those on trucks and buses...