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Talent for Innovation. Boyd and John son are lawyers and longtime friends with a talent for innovation. Johnson came to the Illinois Central in early 1966 after rejuvenating the moribund Railway Express. He increased profits by 41% to $22 million in 1967; profits were still higher last year. Johnson raised the investment in new cars and track and computerized the line's traffic-information operation. At the railroad's Chicago commuter stations, he installed turnstiles that open automatically when a passenger inserts a magnetically coded ticket in a slot. Through a merger now awaiting approval by the Interstate...
...Modern Art, overlooks the town-and some of its slums. The John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, built with U.S. aid and now nearing completion, will be one of the most modern in all of West Africa. Some 2,000 miles of road, paved or not, are open, three railway spurs lead to rich inland iron-ore mines, and low shipping-registration fees (which netted the government $3,000,000 last year) give Liberia, in name anyway, the world's biggest merchant fleet. Although only 5% of the population is literate, some 1,600 youngsters have been...
...modern mold was cast about 150 years ago by Alfred Krupp (great-grandfather of the modern-day Alfried) who, at 14, inherited a nearly bankrupt little ironworks in Essen. By 1851, he had produced the world's largest cast-steel ingot, as well as the first seamless railway wheels, and was soon building a fortune out of the Industrial Revolution and the U.S. railway boom...
...summers ago I was in a small town in France, and not particularly happy about being there. In fact, I was miserable: bored, facing a six hour train trip, and tired of trying to struggle through French novels. The few books in English at the railway station newsstand were all mysteries. I had always been very disdainful of mysteries...
Kang: Now supplies in aid of the Vietnamese in their anti-U.S. struggle are looted, and railway traffic is disrupted. Who is happy? The U.S. imperialists...