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...Cecil Rhodes by walking the 4,500-mile length of Africa from Cape Town to Cairo "just for the hell of it." "You have done what has been the ambition of every explorer," Rhodes wrote, "and it makes me the more certain that we shall complete the [Cape toCairo] railway,* for surely I am not going to be beaten by the legs of an undergraduate...
...CURTAIN SHIPMENTS by U.S. firms are running double the 1955 rate. The Commerce Department has issued $12.7 million worth of export licenses for the year's first half v. $13.4 million for all of 1955. New items licensed include farm machinery, cold-rolled steel sheets for auto bodies, railway-car air-conditioning systems...
...Otherwise, are caves good for anything? Some have been sources of saltpeter for munitions (Kentucky's Mammoth); others provide guano fertilizer from bat droppings (100,000 tons still lie in New Mexico's Carlsbad), cool storage for beer and cheese, ready-made railroad tunnels (for the Southern Railway in Virginia), chicken pens with below hen-killing summer temperatures, cesspools for at least five Pennsylvania towns, factories for moonshiners and counterfeiters, prisons (Marvel Cave, Mo.), natural air conditioning for surface buildings. Kentucky's Mammoth even served as a TB sanatorium for a time in the 1840s (one patient...
RAILROAD MERGER between Louisville & Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway has been recommended by ICC examiner. Under deal calling for stock swap, L. & N. (which already owns 75% of smaller road) will take over N.C. & St. L., combine operations along 5,777 miles of track through 13 Southern and Midwestern states. Though labor unions and Nashville civic groups oppose merger, two roads say it will save $3,000,000 annually in operating costs...
...made a Technicolor, CinemaScope film out of one of the best adventure stories of the Civil War. In the spring of 1862, a Union spy named James J. Andrews and a score of volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...