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...instructing passengers to lie down or brace themselves in their seats. Still whistling wildly, the train jolted into a switch with its coaches careering behind it, raced down its appointed track and into the terminal like some vast, noisy and hellish projectile. Engineer Brower was seen gesticulating from the cab like a madman as he went by. At that moment, it seemed that nothing could prevent a disaster...
Fifty-nine passengers were hurt, only eight seriously (the worst injury was a fractured pelvis). No one in the station was injured. And Engineer Brower-who had stuck courageously to his cab and kept his "hand upon the throttle and his eye upon the rail" until the bitter end- stepped out of the awful wreckage of the locomotive without a scratch to show for his experience...
...Dream. In Detroit, soon after a passenger announced that this was "a stickup" and told him to "keep on going," Cab Driver Arthur Stevens noticed that his fare had dozed off, kept on going to the police station...
After eight months of deliberation, CAB last week approved a deal which will make Delta Air Lines the sixth biggest (in route mileage) in the U.S. Subject to stockholders' approval, Delta will swap $10 million in new, convertible debentures for all the outstanding common stock in Chicago & Southern. The merged company, to be known as Delta-Chicago & Southern, will have 6,474 miles of routes through the South and Midwest, plus another 3,034 (now owned by C. & S.) to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Venezuela...
Woolman has another plan up for CAB approval-a merger with Northeast Airlines (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950). If approved, the merger will give him a route into New York, and a crack at the rich North-South traffic now enjoyed by Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines...