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...other considerable advantages. Planes would never run out of landing room, as they often do at conventional airports; they could simply continue to circle until they slowed sufficiently to use a banked turn-off ramp that would lead them to a centrally located terminal, conveniently spotted for passengers or freight. A circular runway would also be able to handle more traffic than straight runways. With a diameter of 10,500 ft.-about the length of most jet runways-it would have a circumference of more than 32,000 ft., allowing the simultaneous takeoff or landing of several planes spaced...
...Southern Railway, who started out as a kerosene lamplighter at 14, held every job from telegrapher to chief dispatcher until he became president of the 1,647-mile road in 1941, thereafter earning a reputation as one of the more successful leaders of a generally depressed industry by increasing freight and diversifying into moneymaking sidelines; of pneumonia; in Kansas City...
...proposed construction of several new lines, triple-tracking, and staggered working hours for New Yorkers. As for auto traffic, he suggested expansion of cross-town express routes, priority lanes for busses and trucks, more municipal parking facilities, and relocation of the city's cargo docks so that freight-laden trucks would no longer burden Manhattan streets...
...market is equally strong in the big-truck field-dominated by Harvester, White Truck and Mack-in which volume is lower but individual price tags vastly higher. Most orders come from interstate freight lines and are for huge tractor-trailers. Railroad piggybacking has not harmed this market as truck makers feared it would. Railroads still need trucks to haul trailers off freight cars and on to destinations; besides, trucks are still the most economical carriers for runs under 500 miles...
...happy to submit to Court's decision, Coop attorney Philip Cromn '53 said yesterday. The Coop is preparted to reduce the annex's floor area, he explanned, by leaving out a shipment receiving room. "We would use a freight elevator next to our loading dock instead, and I don't think it would hurt our efficiency," he said...