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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was all of that. Through its stock holdings, Alleghany has 17% working control of the New York Central Railroad, plus 50% ownership of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The Central also owns more than $500 million in Manhattan real estate, including the Park Lane, Commodore, Biltmore and Barclay hotels, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: War for Allegheny? | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

IN a shack in the railroad yards at Antigo, Wis. last week sat four railroadmen: a fireman, a conductor, a brakeman and a flagman. All together, they collect pay totaling $110 a day, not counting fringe benefits. Their job: doing nothing. Earlier this year, the Chicago & North Western Railroad decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: LOAFING ON THE RAILROAD | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

The Miracle (Warner), a vast $3,000,000 pseudoreligious epic, is a travesty of the solemn pageant produced in 1911 by the late Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt's drama advanced through a series of large visions of the human condition, as successively they assailed a nun who had been lured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Died. Charles Edward Chauvel, 62, Australian film producer who in 1931 sought an actor for a film called In the Wake of the Bounty, came upon a young vagabond sailor whose small boat had just been wrecked on a South Sea atoll, gave the late Errol Flynn his start; of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Want of a Shoe | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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