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...concert, three songs which appear on Doc's new album were particularly impressive. "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad," "Freight Train Boogie," and "Summertime." The first, built around a full, expertly phrased vocal rendition, also displays some infectious harmonica playing and fine lead guitar by Merle. Doc's smooth, lively harmonica and his own virtuoso lead work make "Freight Train Boogie" a superb sample of the happily driving energy of country music. "Summertime" testifies to many of the virtues of Doc's style: the simple, straightforward vocal is deeply evocative without being at all maudlin, just as his humor...
...board was only slightly impressed, since the union had already been rewarded in previous contracts for some of the productivity gains. In addition, many of the companies that signed the contract had not even waited for the Pay Board to act before applying for freight-rate increases of 15% to 25% to offset increased labor costs. Thus the contract's inflationary potential was almost immediately apparent...
...pink as a baby, sent him to school in his steel-rimmed glasses carrying a music roll, thus exposing him to kids who took one look and called him "sissy." His first sexual encounter (at the age of twelve) was with a boy who dropped off a freight train one night. Miller recalled how in later life his best friend telephoned to say that his eldest son was coming to visit, and added (jokingly?), "Now, please try not to make a pass...
...million. That was by no means N&W's best year; in 1966 it earned $98 million. But unlike the other large Eastern railroads, which all reported losses after extraordinary expenses last year, N&W had been hit by rail and coal strikes, and by cuts in freight business due to the sluggish economy...
...rare prosperity is no accident. It is one of the railroad;-Southern Railway and Southern Pacific are others-that have successfully begun to marry the computer to their operations. It uses the computer to help control and schedule its labor crew and its fleet of 120,000 freight cars, many of them running under such various names as the Nickel Plate and the Virginian (now merged into the N&W). Result: last year noncoal freight use was up 8%, and operating expenses were down fractionally despite a 10% increase in wages...