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Supply is still the big problem in the North, where everything has to be moved in during the brief (four-to 16-week) shipping season or hauled in expensively by air freight. A housewife in a remote R.C.M.P. station on Baffin Island once watched the midwinter supply plane safely parachute twelve packets to the ground; the 13th smashed heavily when the parachute failed to open. Said she to her husband: "What do you bet that was my china...
...exception: the New Haven Railroad (TIME, June 22), which fell deeper into the red in May with a $517,039 loss, its fifth consecutive monthly loss and $150,000 greater than its loss in recession May 1958. To give the railroads hope for even better earnings, revenue freight car-loadings reached their highest level in 20 months, topped the 1958 period by 15.2%, with 723,738 cars loaded in the latest week...
Oedipal Wreck. Ensuing events follow each other to confusion like derailed freight cars. They involve the sergeant's stepfather, a Senator who trades on his war wound and resembles McCarthy as played by Lou Costello, and his mother, a megalomaniac who maneuvers the Senator like a windup toy and makes an Oedipal wreck...
Crash Program. In Albany, N.Y., two unemployed laborers were indicted for attempting to derail a freight train so that they could get some work clearing the tracks...
...metals, clothing, textiles, chemicals and paper. Auto production in U.S. plants was up 3.6% over the week before to 131,584 cars, a pace that will send U.S. car output to its greatest June total in four years; truck volume rose to the best June level in eight years. Freight carloadings climbed 13.9% over the same week last year to reach the highest level in more than 19 months...