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Tidy & Tiny. The short lines bear such quaint names as the Arcade & Attica, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money...
...Lammot, presided over the company's expansion during and after World War I from munitions manufacturing into paints, plastics, rayon and cellophane, plus a 23% stock interest in General Motors, worth some $3 billion when federal trustbusters finally forced divestiture last year; after a long illness; in Wilmington...
...CAPPOS Wilmington...
...there is more to it than that. The State News covered the state legislature with such thoroughness that the Wilmington papers' one-man Dover bureau hollered for reinforcements-and got them. Smyth's men scored a clean beat over the Wilmington dailies with a story about a state welfare department scandal-in Wilmington. During the severe Atlantic Coast storm that wrecked Delaware for two March days in 1962, State News coverage was far superior to that of the Wilmington papers...
...labyrinthine ways, including his three arrests for drunkenness-all of them reported in the State News. Today the State News is a Dover institution, like the girdle factory. It has a circulation of 13,112, and has shaved some 5,000 off the circulation of the competitive Wilmington Journal in what Jack Smyth now regards as part of his own backyard...