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Travel Credit. To speed up railroad ticket purchases, a charge-plate credit card system was started by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway so that tickets can be charged by mail or wire...
...Order the Korean Service Corps (more than 100,000 Korean porters and others working for the U.N. Command), the dockworkers at Pusan, Inchon and other ports, and the railway workers to leave their work. In a time of active combat, with the front in need of a steady stream of supply, such a move by Rhee would be crippling. If the fighting in most sectors is at a standstill, as it now is, the move would be only a serious inconvenience...
...friends and I used to bring back copies of TIME from West Berlin by taping them under the seats of railway carriages. After reading, we gave them away for nothing because we wanted other men to know the situation in the free world ... It is necessary that people in the U.S. should understand the difficulty people in the eastern slave states have in getting news of the outside world...
...north to form a new lake thousands of square miles in area and nearly 200 ft. deep. The backed-up waters, under one plan, would force the moving of the Yukon's largest town, Whitehorse (pop. 2,594), and the rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters through tunnels to the Pacific. Energy produced by the waters' swift drop to the sea will almost triple the output of the famed U.S. Hoover...
...find gave an added fillip to some oil shares on the stock market, notably those with land in the area, such as Montana Dakota Utilities and Northern Pacific Railway, which holds about 6,000 of the 11,372 acres believed to be in the oil area around the well. By week's end, Northern Pacific's stock was up 4⅛ points...