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...Shortage. But the fact is inescapable that the general expansion of the economy has raised earnings while better equipment has lowered costs. In Midwestern harvest areas, the railroads need 12,000 more cars than they have to carry the load. At the same time, such innovations as larger freight cars, more powerful locomotives and automated yards are enabling the railroads to win back much of the market lost to truckers. Last month the Western Maryland and the Reading railroads showed off an electronic scale that can weigh individual cars in a moving train. By doing away with the need...
...fraction of $4200 or $5400, usually in terms of fifth or quarters. The average teaching fellow in the humanities or social sciences works two-fifths to three-fifths time; in the natural sciences he works one-quarter to one-half time. To give an idea, one-fifth load is one section in a general education course, or (in certain departments) 12 sophomore tutees...
...City special policeman. He stuck a pistol into his victim's face while another man, also armed and wearing a Halloween mask, appeared on the other side of the Ford. The thieves knew what they wanted. Inside the old station wagon, guarded by six unarmed messengers, was a load of jewelry and gold bullion valued at some $3,000,000. It was a routine transfer of valuables between wholesalers and repair firms and jewelry merchants; by using dowdy and inconspicuous delivery methods-old car, unarmed guards in mufti-jewelers feel they have the safest insurance against holdups...
...knows better than Moscow that trade is a weapon in the cold war. "With every additional shovel of coal, with every additional load of oil obtained through foreign help," Old Bolshevik Lev Kamenev once predicted, "capitalism will be digging its own grave." Faced with the continuing failure of their economy, the Russians may be forced to rely on wheat from the West for years to come, but above all they want to get hold of heavy industrial items including whole factories, which Russian industry on its own cannot duplicate for a long time to come. Western policy is divided...
...wind-whipped Waddenzee Islands of The Netherlands last week, battered landing craft disgorged load after load of equipment and intense men from as far away as Texas, Kuwait and Brunei. Growling Land-Rovers raced up and down sandy stretches recently surrendered by vacationing Dutchmen; helicopters whirred overhead. The invaders represented some of the 24 oil companies that are gunning for a share of the world's second largest natural gas deposit (after Texas). The Dutch government conservatively estimates that 1,100 billion cubic meters of gas bubbles under the Waddenzee Islands and the northern provinces. Others reckon that...