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...Train. Philadelphia's Budd Co. unveiled its answer to other lightweight trains. The new stainless-steel Budd passenger car, the Pioneer III, scales 52,300 Ibs., or 595 Ibs. for each of its 88 seats. In mass production the Pioneer will cost about $95,000-just above the trainman's dream of $1,000 per head, vastly lower than the conventional car figure of $3,800. Budd cut weight with simplified hollow-axle rail truck and wide use of plastics for seats, walls, baggage racks, ceilings, washroom appliances. The company estimates that Pioneer's maintenance costs will...
...crowd. A porter struggled with a small door at the rear of the car and finally got it open. Ike stepped to the door and was just reaching down to shake an upstretched hand as the engineer started up, leaving half the reporters and photographers behind. A trainman flagged down the train half a block away. Said Ike, grinning ruefully: "I darn near fell out the door...
...Trainman, use your brakes...
...mattered not to Trainman Whitney that the new bill was milder-in 27 spots -than Taft-Hartley; Whitney wanted his boys to think that it was really worse. "If this vicious proposal should ever become law," he told his union in its weekly newspaper, "we shall be only one step from Adolf Hitler's form of government...
...future, the Sunday supplement will vary its picture-story routine with articles aimed to please all 21 of the publishers who buy it. "We've found that human interest stories of ordinary people do a swell job of selling America to the Americans," says Motley. "We take a trainman, or a milkman. Show how he lives, what he eats, where he works, his hobbies. It's not heavy. But by & large it shows that people like their homes, their jobs, the companies they work for. We're doing it the easy way. We tell...