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Erie has spent $114 million on new equipment in the past ten years, now hauls a bigger percentage of freight with diesels than any other trunk line in the U.S. Its radio communications system, linking the engineer with the caboose and with wayside dispatchers, is the most elaborate in the U.S.; its accident rate is less than half the U.S. railroad average. Wall Street's scarlet woman has become as correct and prudent as a Park Avenue dowager...
Lusty Giant. Last year the combined net operating income of the 16 big trunk lines was $51 million, a 50% gain over the 1949 figure. Profits are headed still higher this year (TIME, Feb. 12). Fatal accidents have dropped from 28 per 100 million passenger-miles in 1930 to 1.3 in 1949 (v. .08 for railroads and 2.0 for autos and taxis). Air travel accounted for 2.9% of intercity passengers carried by public carriers in the U.S. in 1950 (v. 37.1% for trains and 60% for buses) and 11.5% of the total passenger-miles racked up. But, said CAB Vice...
...these inner relationships, the bursting of stem and branches from this 'World-Seed' resolved the whole conception into a treelike form, suggesting continuing growth. Thus, this piece is really a 'World-Tree,' its four branches reaching to the four main points of the compass, its trunk in the earth and its extremities still growing, unconcluded, in space. It is related also to those objects in our modern landscape, like antennae, which make the quickest communication with all points of the earth; and it is based on the steel technology of our time as surely as were...
Help Me! His first harvest was a car, a prisoner and $100. He hitched a ride with a 56-year-old Texas mechanic named Lee Archer, robbed him and locked him in the automobile's trunk. But after Cook began driving, the mechanic pried open the trunk and escaped. Then, near Oklahoma City, the car broke down...
Richard Lippold, its sculptor, says, "This piece is really a 'world-tree,' its four main branches reaching to the main ponts of the compass, its trunk in the earth, and its extremities still growing, uncluded, in space...