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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...main line, says the Handbook of American Railroads, instills "a sense that everything is in 'apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced a new merger plan to put together a railroad giant that could be the nation's most profitable transportation complex...
...Pennsylvania, which owns 28% (the largest single block) of the N. & W. and 99% Of the Wabash, has already blessed the merger. So have the Nickel Plate and N. & W. directors. The plan may be the first step in a Pennsylvania scheme to set up a huge eastern rail system that it will later try to join...
Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward 3 selling toys 30% to 40% off. Manhattan's Macys, was moving bestselling new toys below cost. Even venerable F.A.O. Schwartz, "Tiffany of the Toy World," was discounting for the first time in 98 years, had marked some lines down 30%. Surprisingly enough, it was the best toys that often carried the biggest markdowns, e.g., Marx's sturdy, battery-powered go-kart, list-priced at $30 sells for as low as $15. Says the Toy Guidance Council's Melvin Freud: "The retail discounting has stretched the toy dollar 25%. Toys...
...gang goes in through a coal chute. Unfortunately, the furnace has been converted to oil, and the first man lands in a tank of it. Somebody drops the burglar tools. Somebody else puts a foot through a skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town for the weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest...
...Love Game (in French). A happy, bawdy, and always violently spontaneous little Parisian pajama party, billed as the first New Wave comedy, in which the exquisitely funny Jean-Pierre Cassel refuses to make Genevieve Cluny a mother, much less an honest woman...