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...narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to reach Anapolis, gateway to the rich backlands, and longer if the trip is made by road. But from the lush lowlands of the north and the coffee fazendas to the south, 50,000 Brazilians a year are passing through muddy, roughhewn Anapolis in search of new homes and new times, just as U.S. pioneers a century ago left the Atlantic coast and headed west...
...kept right on jiggling. But with draft boards apparently locked up for good, and the bubble-gum market bullish, teen-agers were now devoting more time to the complicated business of acting their age. Certain postwar changes in tribal custom, language, taboos, wooing, peculiarities of dress and methods of transport were evident...
...lanes are getting too thick with planes. In the near future, most air traffic experts agree, something new will be needed to keep them from getting in each other's way. Recently the Air Transport Association of America described an ideal system for instrument designers to shoot at. It amounted to the sort of block system that railroads...
...mollify Anglo-Iranian, concerned about selling its own production in Iran, Jersey Standard planned to buy substantial quantities of oil over the next 20 years. To transport it, Anglo-Iranian will build a pipeline from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean-with Standard footing about $30,000,000 of the bill...
...Class Fascist." By then the House was deep in invective over another sort of execution-the Government's "guillotine" to speed two of its key measures (nationalization of inland transport, and town-&-country planning). Churchill stormed that the Government motion to cut off committee discussion was "strangulation of parliamentary debate . . . legislation by Government decree." Stung by ironic cheers from the Labor side, he lashed at the "idea of the government of the people, by the officials, for the party bosses," cried that "the liberties and the free life of Britain are in great danger" from Socialism...