Word: railroads
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...Johnson was fully appreciative of his value from the time he surveyed the new Kennedy Cabinet in 1961 and called McNamara "the best of the lot." Whether imposing industrial techniques on the Pentagon (see box, preceding page), helping the President fight an aluminum price rise and settle a railroad labor dispute, or making practical contributions to racial equality in the services, McNamara seldom belied Johnson's description of him as "the finest public servant I have ever seen." On two occasions before the 1964 Democratic Convention, L.B.J. discussed the vice-presidency with McNamara, who declined the offer...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last week agreed to a railroad merger that will have everything going for it except euphony. The commission, reversing its own antimerger order of 20 months ago, approved the creation of the Great Northern Pacific & Burlington Lines, Inc. The new road fuses the present Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy along with smaller subsidiaries, including the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and the Pacific Coast Railroad. With 24,600 miles of track stretching across more than a quarter of the nation, the G.N.P. & B. will be the U.S.'s longest railroad. Consolidated revenues...
Size and efficiency indeed were two elements that frightened the ICC when it first considered and turned down by a 6-to-5 vote a merger of lines that railroad men refer to as "The Northerns." The Government feared that the G.N.P. & B. would hurt competitors, notably the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & North Western. Those two roads, which are also intent on merging, withdrew their opposition to the G.N.P. & B. after the Milwaukee was allowed access to such cities as Billings, Mont., and Portland, Ore. and to Canadian points that had all previously been terminals only of The Northerns...
Actually, they said, only 1% of the state's 77,227 sq. mi. has gone to pot-and neighboring Iowa has even more of it, thanks to heavier rainfall. The marijuana that grows in Nebraska, mostly along roadsides, creeks, hedgerows and railroad tracks, is virtually worthless as a narcotic. "Smoking it would be about like smoking corn silk," said Lancaster County Extension Agent Emery Nelson...
...book, mostly the work of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, represents the flowering of a dominant style of pre-war musical comedy. An intricate, well-knit plot midway between a P.G. Wodchouse novel and a Pudding Show, though visibly pieced together in the Taft Hotel or the New Haven Railroad, is among the best of its kind--good enough to pose a favorable contrast to today's usually more stylized, loosely constructed counterparts...