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Norfolk Southern, the nation's fourth largest railway, conceded defeat last week in its 18-month-long bid to buy Conrail, the now profitable Government- owned rail system. Early last year Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole had selected Norfolk Southern as the best qualified of 15 bidders to buy Conrail's freight-hauling business for $1.2 billion. Last February the Senate approved, and the much bruited merger seemed to be on track...
...refugees that washes through the two Berlins. Drawn by advertisements for East Germany's Interflug airline and the Soviet Union's Aeroflot, the impoverished and the war weary from Africa and the Middle East have arrived in East Berlin in droves. Most of them then hop on the elevated railway that connects East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station with West Berlin's Zoo station. Once over the border, the newcomers take advantage of a liberal provision in West German law that guarantees asylum to political refugees. In the first six months of this year alone, some 42,000 refugees, most...
...Indianola he paid his respects to the crossroads, the spot where the Southern crosses the "Dog" (the interchange of the Southern Railway and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley, also called the Yellow Dog, and now the Illinois Central). It was here, legend has it, that W.C. Handy composed Yellow Dog Blues while waiting for a train...
...climate, much like Seattle's, is cool and moist and is as hospitable to tourists as it is to flowers, the regiments of tulips and carpets of pansies that are seen everywhere. The fair's original purpose was to mark the centennial of the opening of the Canadian transcontinental railway. A more practical goal was to boost the ailing economy of British Columbia. But now it is benefiting from a larger circumstance. In a world frightened by terrorism, this international gathering stretched out along the curving waterfront looks as if it will be the summer's Mecca for Americans...
...Valley Authority began using urinalysis to check all new nuclear-plant employees for drug use because, says Joe Gross, chief of employment, "we're very concerned about nuclear-plant safety, and this is one aspect of it--having a work force free of alcohol or drug abuse." Southern Pacific Railway claims that since it began drug and alcohol screening last year, on-the-job accidents and injuries attributed to human error have dropped by nearly...