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Erected at a cost of $6,000,000, the fair was not without its problems. The four-car miniature railroad train proved 2 in. too tall for its costly, covered wooden bridge, and the wildlife preserve through which it passes had been enclosed with low cattle fences-though the caribou inside can jump like kangaroos. The fair's bearded, ebullient president, electric-company executive Don Vogwill, 43, still has not figured out what to do about the enclosure's moose population: during rutting season, a hostile, amorous or plain myopic bull moose could knock the tiny train...
...They hit railroad yards and army barracks, motor pools and POL (petroleum, oil and lubricant) depots, coastal artillery batteries and SAM sites. Hanoi's transformer station was struck...
...hover pallet was easily pushed several feet by two men. By fixing a skirt around a 14-ton oil-storage tank at a military depot and pumping in air, hovercraft technicians were able to move the tank on a cushion of air across a road and a railroad line to a new location. A hover transporter, designed for Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board, has already been used to carry a 155-ton transformer over a bridge that otherwise would have failed under the load: a hover platform built into the transporter suspended the transformer on a cushion...
...billion shares of 1,285 Big Board companies. Until 30 years ago, the exchange operated as a private club, and the little investor was usually at the mercy of manipulators. The 1901 clash between E. H. Harriman and James J. Hill for control of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for instance, wiped out many a small trader and nearly wrecked the exchange...
...Ackerman, fearing a leveling off of bus travel, began searching for new uses of Greyhound's cash. His first bet became a bonanza. For $14.7 million in stock, Greyhound bought San Francisco's Boothe Leasing Corp., which had been earning $400,000 a year mainly by leasing railroad freight cars and locomotives. Ackerman began buying jetliners-and made money when the credit-shy airlines started cashing in on the jet age. The subsidiary's earnings have zoomed 1,300%, to $6.2 million...