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...intense that single holidays regularly rack up the highest highway accident rate of the year. One typical survey showed that a month with a three-day weekend, compared with a month without one, produced a 19% increase in business for an airline and a railroad, a 16% increase for a resort hotel...
...more aware of this situation than Breuer himself, who admits that he would have refused a commission to design Pan Am. But he also recognizes economic imperatives and esthetic realities. With the Pan Am Building, the vistas were gone anyway; the railroad still needed money; and the airspace above the station was still some of the most valuable real estate in Manhattan. Said Breuer after accepting the commission: "My feeling is this space will have to be utilized sooner or later. If so, it is important that it is utilized in a good...
...with "the groans and moans of the people in the cotton fields. Before it got the name of soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetables on a wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul?he give out the meter, a long and short meter, and the old mothers of the church would reply. This musical thing has been...
Practical Reason. Aside from image, there is an eminently practical reason for restructuring the corporation. Under Interstate Commerce Commission regulations, a railroad can issue securities only for new ventures connected with railroading. Moreover, it needs ICC permission for just about every kind of venture it undertakes. A holding company that happens to have a railroad as a subsidiary is freer from ICC control. Thus, when the name change takes place, accompanied by an exchange of A.T. & S.F. stock for equal shares in Santa Fe Industries, the railroad will be merely a portion of the bigger company. Chairman and Chief Executive...
...easiest part of the trip. Five foreign cars-from a French De Dion to an Italian Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then set out on the long trek across Siberia. Where there were no roads, Schuster made do with railroad tracks. When he ran out of oil, he lubricated the engine with Vaseline, a substance that lesser men of the era used on their hair, and he managed to find a bed to sleep in only five times in 72 days. Finally, on July 30, he chugged into Paris-the winner...