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...Truck piggyback service for general freight has doubled in two years, become the rails' most profitable single freight operation. Last week six of the biggest U.S. trucking firms joined in a new company to cooperate with the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in building special piggyback terminals for general freight in Jersey City and Chicago...
pressuring other truckers to sign up. He has also launched a full-scale public relations barrage against the railroads, loping to stir up support for an amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act that would limit the rails' power to undercut freight charges on piggyback runs...
Pravda also shed some light on how Venusnik was separated from the booster that lifted it piggyback into space. At a predetermined point on orbit around the earth, when the satellite reached a great speed, the booster was separated-whether automatically or by radio signal from earth, the Soviets did not say. The booster stayed on orbit, while Venusnik hurtled on alone. As it broke away from the earth's gravitation, it moved into a solar orbit at 61,000 m.p.h...
...never comes anywhere near Venus, the U.S.S.R. can still claim another successful space first: launching an interplanetary vehicle from a circling earth-satellite. Although never before tried, the trick has long been discussed by satellite scientists, who agree that it has important advantages. If an interplanetary vehicle is carried piggyback on a satellite, its speed and direction can be measured accurately and unhurriedly while it is still on a "parking'' orbit. Then, far in advance, a point can be selected that will be best for the probe's interplanetary takeoff...
...PIGGYBACK POOL will be set up by the R.E.A. Express (new name of the Railway Express Agency). Shippers will be able to rent trailers for shipping by rail, then turn them in at 31 points across the U.S., thus save cost of returning the trailers to home base after the delivery is made...