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...Coast Guard radio station at Pungo, Va., picked up a nervous call. Speaking in broken English, the caller said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
Since then, C & S has grown to be almost twice the size of First National, as Lane increased its branches from 13 to 61 while steadily expanding its services. C & S was a pioneer in converting to data processing and introducing freight-bill payment services, under which the bank pays the shipping bills of its customers directly out of their accounts. C & S also moved headlong into travel services, now ranks as one of the South's largest travel agencies. One of the first major banks to issue its own credit card, C & S was first to offer...
...Earl of Dartmouth (1731-1801), was proud to lend his name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around campus...
...crash site. As each piece of wreckage is found, it is plotted on the grid to establish the debris pattern that resulted from the crash, and detonation of the conventional explosives in each bomb. The collected debris will be shipped to the U.S. .in sealed containers for burial. The freight will be substantial. "Every piece of debris we've found so far is contaminated," reports Hunziker...
Expenses for the combined railroads are not likely to fall quickly. The bill for consolidating track and freight yards will amount to millions. And the Penn Central has also promised a $25 million loan to the New Haven Railroad to bail out its money-losing passenger services until the merged roads include the New Haven in their system. But eventual savings from joint operations may reach $100 million a year. And additional revenue sources are being tapped. Last week Perlman announced that a lease agreement had been signed with a British investment group which plans to build an office building...