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...many railroad workers is based on the quaint rule that a man gets a full day's pay for 100 miles of travel, with the result that an engineer on a fast express may get $39.95 for four hours' work while his counterpart on a slow freight may get $34.33 for ten hours...
...October. They briefly touched a seven-year peak last week. Because of the economy's general strength, the Association of American Railroads predicts that carloadings in this year's third quarter will rise 3% over the same period a year ago. The backlog of orders for new freight cars has jumped from 14,000 in mid-1962 to 23,000 in mid-1963. Newly liberalized depreciation allowances have helped to increase profits and dividends so far this year for major lines, including the Southern Pacific, the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, and the Northern Pacific. The Interstate Commerce Commission...
...unhappily relies on what is bad about his past writing as well as on what is good. Sex is too often not only Topic A, but also Topics B and C as well. His preoccupation with small-town sociology and the lives of secondary characters sometimes leads him to freight his dialogue with extra information until it sounds like a young playwright's first act. The experiment may be merely an attempt to put old wine into a slightly new bottle. It is not vintage O'Hara, but the vineyard is unmistakable...
...rode freight trains for kicks...
...year-old boy in Somerville, Mass., extended his right arm last week and shook hands with a visitor. What made the event news was that exactly one year ago, red-haired Everett Knowles Jr. had his arm completely severed when a freight train threw him against a bridge abutment. Though several similar operations have been tried since then, the reimplantation of "Red"' Knowles's arm by a team of plastic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital is still the most successful case involving a whole limb...