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...summer of 1952, the Communists completed the first new line on the way to Russia, a 314-mile stretch between Chungking and Chengtu (see map). That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest." The Communists are now at work on at least twelve more strategic railroads, more than 4,000 miles long, which will join Russia's Asian network in at least two places. Among them...
...negotiating to lease Canadian National railroad's 40-mile branch line between Massena, N. Y. and Huntingdon, Que. The Central sees the short, easy-grade line as an important link in its plan to do a heavy freight business by picking up Labrador ore at the Montreal terminus, shipping it southwest to U.S. blast furnaces...
...Votre Sante. In Dijon, France, to provide American tourists with a substitute for ice water, the Terminus Hotel installed a new piping system, in each bathroom provided two additional faucets, one for white wine...
...high position, but rather career bureaucrats who hold their civil service jobs regardless of administration politics. They are graduates of the Littauer Center of Public Administration, a school which has become so influential in the 15 years since it was founded that it is today recognized as the northern terminus of a two-way shuttle of experts between Harvard and Washington...
Symonds hustled to extend Tennessee's terminus from Buffalo, 300 miles into New England. Last fall he began serving 35 utility companies in New England. Algonquin still has not finished its $44 million, 254-mile pipeline from Lambertville, NJ. to Boston, but has only a few gaps (e.g., a quarter mile near Peekskill, N.Y.) to go. Symonds has done everything he could to keep Algonuin from finishing...