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...turbine electric locomotives-the first ordered by a U.S. railroad-at a cost of $5,400,000. Last week, with only six delivered, he ordered another 15 for $8,600,000. After running his turbine locomotives on U.P.'s mountainous track between Ogden, Utah and Green River, Wyo., Stoddard was convinced that they will revolutionize railroading even more than the coming of the diesels...
...happier town last week was Rock Springs (pop. 11,500), Wyo. No casual visitor would ever catalogue it as an art center. Union Pacific streamliners rumble through its heart, the streets are lined with 26 busy bars, and the town's big preoccupations are railroads and coal. But Rock Springs owns one of the liveliest collections of contemporary American art in the Rockies-some 275 paintings, lithographs and etchings by such artists as Frederic Taubes, Aaron Bohrod and Grandma Moses. And Rock Springs is busy collecting more...
Next day Stevenson backtracked to Kasson, Minn, to outline his farm policy (see above). Then, pushing West again, he flew to Cheyenne, Wyo., devoting 20 minutes of the flight to drafting notes for a speech. When he arrived at the auditorium, however, Stevenson discovered that he had forgotten the notes. In five minutes the governor hastily scribbled down his outline, oblivious to the throng of onlookers. The result was a neatly phrased blend of reminiscences of previous trips to Wyoming, praise of the Democratic record on development of natural resources and hammering at what is becoming a major Stevenson (formerly...
...emphasis as they tour the hustings. Harriman, the 100% Fair Deal man, trades in quick, slashing, sometimes outrageous pronouncements. At Golden, Colo, last week, he said:'"We can show Taft's policies are what Stalin would have us do; Taft is Stalin's candidate." At Cheyenne, Wyo.: "The Republicans haven't had a new idea since Harding's time." At Boise, Idaho: The forces opposed to price and wage controls are "ignorant special-interest groups . . . laying the basis for the crack-up the Kremlin has been looking...
...incentive ... to continue this life of shame ... I am ready to pay my debt to society . . . [although Hugh and I] paid a mighty sum in remorse, tears, lonesomeness and regret." Last week, 62-year-old Charley Whitney pleaded guilty to bank robbery in a district court at Kemmerer, Wyo. "I can see no purpose in sending you to prison," said the judge, and sent him back home, a man with a name once more...