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...right of way has also been cleared for piggybacking by the emergence of companies that now buy and lease piggy back cars and trailers, leaving railroads free to spend capital on track and tunnel improvement and such new yards as Proviso Piggyback. The most energetic of the leasing companies is Philadelphia-based Trailer Train Co., whose stock is owned by 35 railroads and by the U.S. Freight Co., the nation's largest freight forwarder. The company started with 530 piggyback cars in 1956, now has 16,000 moving around the U.S. - and is ordering hundreds of new ones each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: A Going Thing | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

Dylan Thomas wrote Falesá while living in a trailer in Oxford. He got about $3,300 for it, most of which he wheedled out of the producers in advance, soulfully telling them that he had no money for Christmas presents for his children. When he had story conferences with the cinema people, he would listen cooperatively to their suggestions, then go forget everything in a string of Soho pubs. Said one movie man: "If that boy had had a bit of discipline, he would have been the greatest screenwriter of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Ghosts Fly Backwards | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...Mersey then resold them for $425,000 and, says the jury indictment, gave McGinnis $35,000, Benson $11,500, and Glacy $25,000. Pat McGinnis denied the charges from the Manhattan office where he now works as vice president of Highway Trailer Industries Inc., a firm that makes trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: A Hotbox for Pat | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Just as rain threatened to wash away the new road, the 16-ton head was removed by trailer and then shipped on loan to Houston. This week it arrived-a superb, Buddha-like sculpture nine feet high, whose meaning to the Olmec civilization is lost to history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sweeney's Way | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker, of Phillipsburg, N.J., slowed his Volkswagen-and sailed 100 ft. into some weeds when struck from behind by a tractor-trailer truck. Eleven other trucks and two cars crumpled together. One truck passenger and five truck drivers-one of them 14 vehicles back-were killed. Baker suffered a minor neck injury. >Construction Worker Samuel Brown was eager to get away from northern Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam-and with good reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Shattering Records | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

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