Word: plate
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Jock is both hero and villain of a garrison tragedy. The tragedy begins when Jock, as acting C.O., is superseded by "a spry wee gent" (as Jock ripsnortingly describes him) "wi' tabs in place o' tits." The new colonel (John Mills) is in fact a rather glum plate of porridge, but he is just what the battalion needs on the morning after old Jock's riotous regime. He tightens up training procedures, clears out the administrative mess...
...combined earnings of the roads last year totaled $77 million, well ahead of the earnings of any other transportation corporation. President Saunders estimates that by eliminating duplicate tracks and terminals between the Wabash and Nickel Plate, he will save at least $25 million a year and make the profit picture prettier...
...Pennsylvania, which owns 28% (the largest single block) of the N. & W. and 99% Of the Wabash, has already blessed the merger. So have the Nickel Plate and N. & W. directors. The plan may be the first step in a Pennsylvania scheme to set up a huge eastern rail system that it will later try to join...
Saunders still needs approval by ICC and Nickel Plate and N. & W. stockholders. But no serious ovjections are expected. ICC Chairman Kenneth H. Tuggle reiterated last week what the agency has said before-that it is in favor of mergers that are in the public interest...
...Fred May, 43; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif. Miss Turner's previous husbands: Clarinetist Artie Shaw; Restaurateur Steve Crane, whom she married twice ("I was lonely. I have to have someone to love, and there was Steve"); Socialite and Tin-Plate Heir Bob Topping ("This is forever"); Film Tarzan Lex Barker...