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SANTA FE RAILROAD, longest in the U.S. (TIME, May 23), will expand again. For $9,963,000 the Santa Fe bought 73,800 shares (82%) of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad from the estate of George P. McNear Jr., whose death by a shotgun blast during a 1947 strike is still unsolved. With the 239-mile T.P. & W., which bridges central Illinois and ties in with the Santa Fe tracks at Lomax, Ill., the Santa Fe can bypass crowded Chicago switchyards with transcontinental freight, save up to eight hours on New York deliveries...
Only in her longest story, The Displaced Person, does Ferocious Flannery weaken her wallop by groping about for a symbolic second-story meaning - in this case, something about salvation. But despite such arty fumbling, which also marred Author O'Connor's novel Wise Blood (TIME, June 9, 1952), this is still a power ful and moving tale of an innocent Pole who stumbles against the South's color bar. Whatever her uncertainties in the longer form, Flannery O'Connor packs a punch in her short stories that for sheer sardonic brutality occasionally recalls the early Graham...
This time the White House kept hands off-despite intervention pleas by the L. & N management and the governors of Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. Some observers were sharply critical, pointing out that the walkout was the longest major rail strike since 1922 and was marked with violence. Snapped the New Dealing Louisville Courier-Journal: "Strikes which lose millions of dollars for all concerned, which erupt into violence and bloodshed . . . cannot be left to the mercies of 'voluntarism...
Outside the little northern Texas town of Krum last week, a platoon of railroad workers spaced gft. ties along a new track bed, spotted rails over tie plates and pounded home the spikes. This was no ordinary track-laying; the gandy dancers were laying the longest stretch of new line-49 miles-in the U.S. in 20 years...
grew up to be the nation's longest (13,073 miles-see map), and, next to Union Pacific (which collects almost half its profits from oil and gas), the biggest moneymaker. The Santa Fe is also one of the most modern, e.g., it is the biggest road to be 100% dieselized, and its speedy (Chicago to Los Angeles in 40 hours), elegant Super Chief is the nation's most glamorous train, with a private dining room, barber, valet, and an occasional cocktail loungeful of Hollywood stars...