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...rest of the world. The Empire's biggest iron and steel plant is at Jamshedpur. The British had built up in India an incorruptible judicial system, a good police force, a vast (if substandard) network of roads, and the world's fourth largest railway system...
Lilienthal headed for Chicago and a law job with Donald Richberg, then counselor for the railway brotherhoods, now for Standard Oil. In three years Lilienthal branched...
...days under a perfect summer sky, a svelte passenger stood by the ship's side inhaling the soft night air. Suddenly she caught sight of a dockside below littered with trucks, bales and dingy trains. "Oh, my God," she exclaimed, "how ghastly to see the Southern Railway again...
Hungry Steel. After their hungry cry for another rate boost (TIME, July 14), some of the railroads turned out to be pretty well fed. Union Pacific's six months' earnings, at $20,601,834, were 51% above the 1946 period; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's, $20,609,310, were up 57%. Some 25 roads did much better than last year-a poor year-including the New York Central Railroad Co., which made $2,053,711 v. a 1946 loss...
...Texas & Pacific Railway Co. last week tried out a scheme to boost passenger travel. It permitted travelers to buy tickets on the installment plan. In so doing, the small (1,874-mile) Texas & Pacific scored a beat over 50 major U.S. railroads; they plan to start installment travel this fall...