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...annex itself is not expected to add much to the Coop's net income. Scheduled for completion this spring, it will house general and reference books on the ground floor, paperbacks and records on the second and textbooks on the third, with escalators between floors -- and a freight elevator that may be used by customers during the rush periods at the beginning of each term. Coop officials are sure the annex will bring an increase in sales, but that the extra money will be needed to pay its operating costs...
...emotions, calling for secession from India and crying that only a bloody revolution could solve Kerala's problems. With things getting out of control, the other parties urged their followers to return to their homes. It was too late. Near Cannanore, a mob of 10,000 stopped a freight train and looted it. In the capital of Trivandrum an angry throng broke through police lines, then wrecked a railway station. Elsewhere rioters tore up rail track, built barricades across roads and highways, taunted police with the cry: "Shoot us or give us rice!" Police fired warning shots over...
Coming in for a landing at a little Mekong Delta town, the lumbering, freight-laden C-47 was a perfect target. The Viet Cong did not miss, putting bullets through the shoulder, leg and arm of the pilot of the Air America civilian transport ferrying rice under contract to the U.S. Government. As the crippled plane headed down to a crash landing in a small canal, the copilot frantically radioed for a rescue helicopter. Minutes later, the chopper arrived - and out of the downed plane jumped two men who were in the uniforms of the American pilot and his Vietnamese...
...they were resurrected from a railroad museum, rumors of past mismanagement, inadequate service--reality quickly catches up to growing myth as the New Haven continues on the downward track to oblivion. Today the railroad has seventy per cent fewer passengers than in 1922, less than half the freight revenue of 1943, one quarter the number of employees of forty years ago. Nothing, including reorganization under trusteeship after the New Haven filed for bankruptcy in 1961, seems to have offered any hope...
...maintained under private management, they reported that the source of the New Haven's trouble was its passenger deficit. Every railroad in the country loses money on its passenger operation, but the cause of the New Haven's special problem is its extremely high ratio of passenger service to freight service; one of the smaller roads in the country, it ranks fourth in passenger carrying and second in average commuter haul. Its passenger deficit during the last decade was over $133 million...