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...featherbedding." Last week-after two earlier U.S. presidential boards had wrestled with the problem-a congressionally appointed panel awarded the railroads a signal victory. In the first peacetime arbitration ever imposed by Congress, the board ruled that almost all of the 33,000 firemen who work aboard diesel-powered freight and yard trains are "not necessary" and should be gradually phased...
...into the mine. Gathering speed, it flew off the track on a curve in the tunnel and struck the mine wall, showering the fatal sparks that ignited coal dust in a vast explosion. At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track. Seconds later, alerted by a warning flare, a passenger train southbound from Tokyo halted on a clear track beside the freight. At that moment, a northbound commuter train roared up the middle...
...inspectors had found Mikawa to be among the best-equipped mines in the country. The government could point out that the stretch of track where the collision occurred was equipped with modern safety devices-but they proved useless because the entire chain of events, from the derailment of the freight cars to the arrival of the third train, took less than 30 seconds...
Bonus for Breakthroughs. Productivity is being increased partly by men but mostly by machines. In the past five years, such devices as continuous mining machines, automatic freight yards and automated pipeline networks have increased the productivity of coal miners by 35%, rail workers and oilfield roughnecks...
...gave people authority as well as responsibility to get their jobs done." During 1962, profits more than doubled to $16 million on sales of $270 million, are expected to be higher this year. Now Grace is driving Fruehauf in new directions: recently it has begun to lease trailers, build freight cars and materials handling systems. A wiry Texan who has a disconcerting habit of juggling a tennis ball while he talks, Grace started as a male secretary in a small Fort Worth trailer company, made himself a millionaire in oil, cattle, real estate...