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...first of the Asian immigrants, indentured laborers on the Uganda Railway, were followed by thousands of enterprising countrymen, who became traders, clerks, and accountants, and who boosted East Africa's fledgling economy by penetrating the interior with their box-like "duka" shops. Under British control they occupied middle-level administrative jobs and monopolized many areas in trade and commerce...
...Michigan, Texas and California. Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina stand for the moderate South. Other prominent names: Economist Robert Nathan, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action; Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co.; Richard Maguire, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Kennedy Administration...
...million made it West Germany's biggest private company, the Argentine nuclear plant will be its fifth -and its first outside the country. It marks the latest foreign victory for an expansionist-minded organization with 95 subsidiaries that include a cable factory in India and a railway-switchgear plant in South Africa. When the company built a hydroelectric plant in Afghanistan, it not only trained mechanics in Germany to run the operation but also erected the electrical and telephone system powered by the plant. Its 300 series computer runs steel mills in Red China, and its electromedical equipment...
...Island over are the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Heineman's Chicago & North Western. - In the Southeast, the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroad have already merged into the Seaboard Coast Line and expect to realize annual savings of $38.7 million. Meanwhile the Southern Railway, bothered by this increase in competition, has been shopping around for a partner. ¶In the West, where mergers are less urgent because rail routes are longer, highways fewer and profits greater, one small railroad is being assiduously courted. Both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe have attempted...
Sustained Sentiment. The man who is slated to preside over the Penn Central, fittingly enough, is the man who started the merger trend. It was Saunders, as president of the Norfolk & Western, who arranged for the takeover of the Virginian Railway in 1959 and laid the groundwork for the N. & W. to acquire the Nickel Plate and the Wabash. Born in McDowell, W. Va., Saunders grew up in Bedford, Va., within sight and sound of the N. & W.'s main line through the coal fields. He attended college in the town where the N. & W. has its headquarters. Even...