Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Evalyn Walsh was ten, her tough, Tipperary-born father struck gold at Ouray, Colo. Tom Walsh had lived in a boxcar, tended store in Deadwood, and hammered outcroppings for fruitless decades. But when the millions rolled in he twirled the ends of his handlebar mustache, hustled his family off to Washington and swore that his daughter was going to be a lady. Evalyn promptly swore that she wouldn't. She didn't. But in the next 50 years she proved that with $100 million, a wild Irish miner's daughter could do almost everything else under...
...first to hire a boxcar and head south was shy, skinny John Red, 30. Says John, who hadn't had a haircut in months: "People will think you got money if you dress up. They might try to rob you." He took eight horses and one pony south...
...primitive: because he lacked screw-eyes to hold up feed tubs, the horses ate off the floor. John rubbed all eight horses, galloped them, even shoed them. Last week, when Sunshine Park ended its 50-day meeting after going $100,000 in the red, John Red ordered another boxcar. This time he had some cash in his pants. His catch-as-catch-can stable had won eight races...
...have a program about Polish refugees being sent back to Poland. The writer will sit in this room, lighted in a blue-greenish color. The room will be cold. We'll have Polish folks songs playing. On the screen will be a picture of refugees in a boxcar. There'll be an odor of garlic...
...great surprise, steel, the basic industry that supported this tremendous production, turned in some boxcar profit figures. U.S. Steel Corp., which shipped more steel (4,902,742 tons) in the last quarter of 1946 than in any peacetime year, ended up with a whopping net of $88,683,530 for the year, more than 50% better than in 1945. In the last quarter alone, net profit was $31,215,636 v. $13,267,300 in the same period of 1945. Strikes hurt Big Steel less than expected because it charged off the cost-some $29,000,000-against reserves piled...