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...million. Castro's economic agents talked big deals, but so far have signed few contracts. A U.S. embassy official looked into reports that U.S. wheeler-dealers were sending embargoed goods to Canada, then transshipping them via the U.S. in sealed freight cars to the Havana railway ferry at West Palm Beach, Fla. He reported back that "not a single provable case has turned...
...Over the years Jenkins has cloaked his operations in such secrecy that an intriguing mixture of fact and legend has grown up around his empire building. Born May 18, 1878 in Shelbyville, Tenn., Jenkins showed up in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1901, dead broke. He took a job as a railway mechanic for 50? a day. In 1906, a U.S. missionary group staked him to enough capital to launch an itinerant haberdashery business...
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...
...Norfolk & Western Railway, which reaches from Norfolkthrough the West Virginia coal fields up to southern Ohio is one of the nations best-run railroads. A ride over its main line, says the Handbook of American Railroads, instills "a sense that everything is in 'apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced...
...okay on a new 4,700 mile rail network made up by merging the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) Railroad. Wisconsin Central, and Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. All are subsidiaries of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The merger calls for formation of a new company to be called the Soo Line Railroad...