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...been law clerk to former Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, financial vice president of Dun & Bradstreet and president of New York's Seamen's Bank for Savings. As chairman of the Union Pacific Corp., he rules an empire encompassing the U.S.'s eighth largest railroad, oil and gas operations, uranium and coal mines and 1 million acres of real estate. Like Brophy, Evans argues that reducing the business tax burden is crucial to boosting America's sagging productivity. Says he: "People want to put in a day's work...
That represents the movie's bow to realism. Its comic spirit is exercised mainly through repeated shots of Field running awkwardly down roads and railroad tracks in heels of perilous height. The variant on this gag is to have something or someone upend her in order to show her tight skirts stretching across her admittedly adorable bottom...
...cars, sometimes ten miles long, inched into the city while subways, buses and trolleys stood idle, sidelined by a strike of 5,000 transit workers, the fourth such in six years. Thousands of commuters from the city's outskirts tried to get downtown via Conrail, but that overtaxed railroad line had to leave hundreds stranded on platforms. Some of the 400,000 Philadelphians who rely on public transit took to bicycles to get to work. The strike, sparked by union protests over the hiring of part-time help and a decision to require maintenance workers to pass proficiency tests...
...1950s, transit ridership declined precipitously (see chart). Americans fell in love with the automobile, honeymooned on new highways and married into the suburbs. Subways and buses were not part of the post-World War II American dream. When the energy crisis hit in 1973, the country found that its railroad beds had deteriorated and its subways were falling apart. The Federal Government called for more efficient public transit and urged private companies to design a better bus (see box). Mass transit was going to be the methadone that would help America withdraw from its addiction to foreign oil. It would...
Painter said that the assembly did not give the El Salvador issue enough time but tried to "railroad a motion through...