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...seems to be waving a perfumed handkerchief about the landscape. By his campfire after a day of fishing, when it is time to throw a cliché on the flames, he comes up with a good, chunky one: "I woke just once during the night, when a Union Pacific freight train wailed in the distance...
...task force presented what it called "random examples of bureaucratic absurdity" and noted how much could be saved over three years if the practices were stopped. Among them: the failure of the Government to negotiate discounts on freight charges with high-volume shippers ($530 million); spending by the Veterans Administration of $61,250 a bed to construct its nursing homes rather than the $16,000 common for private homes ($474 million); maintaining 12,469 post offices that serve fewer than 100 people each ($272 million); failure to keep money seized from criminals in interest-bearing accounts ($50 million...
Others set the date in 1904, when Chekhov on his deathbed declared, "It's a long time since I drank champagne." Appropriately, his coffin then rode to burial in a freight car marked FRESH OYSTERS...
...rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick up Kelly Braggs, 20, stranded in her rural home and suffering from a serious pituitary deficiency. The train then backed up 33 miles to Lafayette, " where Braggs was hospitalized...
TRUCKING. Since passage in 1980 of legislation that made it easier to get into the trucking business, the number of interstate carriers has jumped 70%, to 30,717. Because of the new competition, the average price of shipping a truckload of freight is 25% to 30% lower than it was four years ago. The price squeeze has been tough on unionized carriers, which have laid off one-third of the Teamsters members employed in the industry. Meanwhile, low-cost nonunion trucking operations are mushrooming. Overnite Transportation, a nonunion company based in Richmond, has expanded its network from 21 states...