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...four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
...three times as profitable as the best piston-engine planes. So efficient are the jets that Boeing 707s, for instance, break even with passenger loads as low as 39% of capacity. The industry's load average rose to 55% last year, enough to return the eleven U.S. trunk carriers 11% on their $2.3 billion investment, the highest rate in 15 years. This has produced some speculation that the Civil Aeronautics Board may order fare cuts (it regards a 101% return as "fair and reasonable"), but the airlines argue that they need several years of high earnings...
Only eleven airlines fly the 285,000 miles of U.S. trunk routes, and seven American steamship lines dock in U.S. ports. By contrast, nearly 100 railroads -the greatest conglomeration anywhere in the world-compete unevenly over 214,000 miles of Class I track, both among themselves and with a growing number of trucks, buses, automobiles and barges. The result is massive inefficiency and chronic headaches for the U.S. railroad industry, which has failed to keep pace with the vast changes in public transportation...
...Casa Cubertini proved to be a small beach house in a remote suburb of Montevideo. Inside on the floor were two large pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
...versatile operating table adjustable to all nine standard surgical positions. Overhead, from ceiling mounts, hung three groups of lights, of 1,500 foot-candles each, which can be aimed at different parts of the body if a man has scattered wounds and needs surgery on his head, trunk and legs at the same time. The table weighs only 200 Ibs. as shipped, but need not wobble because there is a basetank that holds 100 Ibs. of water...